EARTH SUMMIT+5 Special Session of the General Assembly to Review and Appraise the Implementation of Agenda 21 New York, 23-27 June 1997 SUCCESS STORIES FROM ZIMBABWE

	The Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE)
	Location	Zimbabwe
	Responsible organization	Local communities, district councils, NGOs such as Africa Resource Trust and international aid agencies.
	Description	CAMPFIRE is aimed at promoting sustainable management of wildlife and natural resources and equitable sharing of their benefits at the local community level.
	Issues addressed	Sustainable wildlife and natural resource management, sustainable human development.
	Objectives	Enhancing awareness and knowledge of the need for sustainable wildlife and natural resources management; creating community networks for carrying out the works required for sustainable resource management; equitable sharing the economic gains and dispensing the part of generated financial resources for improving public infrastructure and social services.
	Results achieved	lmproved wildlife and natural resource preservation. Equitable sharing of economic gains of sustainable resource management by individual members of the communities and the communities themselves
	Lessons learned	Community driven, participatory development and resource management activities have high prospect for success and returns.
	Financing	Communities have been financing activities from the economic gains obtained from sustainable resource management activities. NGOs supporting CAMPFIRE are financed by international aid agencies and NGOs.
	Contact	Africa Resources Trust, PO Box HG690, Highlands, Harare, Zimbabwe (Tel) 263-4-732-254, (Fax) 263-731-719