The Migration and Conservation Toolkit was developed to help conservation practitioners assess the impacts of human migration on critical ecosystems. It draws on extensive research in three critical ecosystems in the Great Lakes region of Africa with generous funding from the MacArthur Foundation.
The Migration and Conservation Toolkit aims to help conservation practitioners design and implement activities that are sensitive to the dynamics and impacts of existing and potential human migration on livelihoods and natural resource use, and that address the consequent impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity in host communities. It does so by helping conservationists:
- Undertake a participatory analysis process that engages all stakeholders and results in concrete responses to identified issues.
- Understand the context in terms of migration, conservation, and the links between the two.
- Identify interventions that address the conservation issues that are created or exacerbated by human migration.
- Integrate migration-sensitive conservation interventions into existing project management systems.
The toolkit is intended as a roadmap to guide users toward a better understanding of migration dynamics and impacts, an understanding they can then use to better protect ecosystems. It is not prescriptive, but instead aims to help practitioners design and implement activities that are sensitive to the dynamics and impacts of existing and potential human migration on livelihoods and natural resource use, and that address the consequent impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity in host communities.
You can download this toolkit for free here.
