You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, and that they must protect them.
— Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate —
I just wanted to let you know that I just came back from the final session of the LAMP (Leadership and Management Program) training that you so generously helped us do over the last four months. Everyone’s graduated. Everyone received certificates. And it’s wonderful to see the energy in the group, and the smiles. Just seeing their faces when they’re coming to pick up the certificates, you can just see the impact that LAMP had on them.
A brief note shared with the MSWC founder from Shivani Bhalla, founder & CEO of the Ewaso Lions Project.
One of the participants at the end – I wish I filmed it – said something so wonderful, he said: “When we came here, we were all from different places, from different conservancies, and we’re different tribes, we’re half Samburu and half Turkana here” and he said: “But after we came here together, we’re not from different places anymore. We are from the same place. And we’re all together as one big family”.
I just wanted to share that with you. I was very, very honored just to be there for the last hour of the LAMP training.
Our Vision
A world in which biodiversity is conserved and ecosystems managed for the prosperity of all who live in them.
Our Mission
MSWC believes that effective wildlife conservation requires managerial skills at the grassroots level that marry the passion of the practitioners with the leadership, financial management, organization, and conflict resolution techniques needed for optimal delivery.
MSWC uniquely focuses on developing community grassroots managerial skills through structured learning and peer group support, working from the bottom up.
MSWC produces short film to showcase the impact of Leadership and Management training on the lives of community members.
This is the The Story of Mayanai.
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Video Credits: Joseph Akula, published by Daughters For Earth.
MSWC Releases 2022 Annual Report
“Having listened to many wildlife conservation leaders, managers, community members, and foundations and other organizations that are funding conservancies, I thought that I would have a go at applying the philosophy – that enhanced management skills lead to better social and economic outcomes – to wildlife conservation. This Annual Report describes the initial steps of such an experiment. MSWC views its role as catalyst, helping to promote and demonstrate the impact which leadership and management training can have in community wildlife conservancies. My vision is for attention to leadership and management skills of those who are “closest to the land” to become a routine element of wildlife conservation policy.” –
GUY PFEFFERMANN
MSWC Founder & President
Why Africa needs community-led conservation
Conservation efforts in Africa have typically been led by “parachute conservationists” — outsiders who drop in thinking they have all the answers, hire locals to implement them and then disappear. But conservationist Resson Kantai Duff has a better way to save wildlife in Africa: let locals lead these efforts themselves. She calls for a major shift in how conservation in Africa works, showing why the people closest to the land are the ones best fit to care for it. (source: ted.com)
Women’s Leadership and Management Program (LAMP)
Read extracts from the women LAMP graduates’ feedback.
Wildlife will continue to disappear
until we empower communities to manage conservation.
What we do
Combine global expertise with local knowledge to develop leadership and management training at the community level.
- Promote the development and implementation of localized curricula.
- Bring conservancy management education to desktop and mobile phone users.
- Create local language learning material.
HELP TO MAKE A SUSTAINABLE DIFFERENCE
The Leadership And Management Program (LAMP) for local communities is a transformational process to equip, and empower young men and women to manage their landscape, conserve natural resources and wildlife, secure their livelihoods, and have a high degree of resilience in difficult economic and ecological times. Particularly women from communities traditionally have little voice but can become incredible change agents given the right training.
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The need is for experiential learning, not the conventional academic approach… Above all, good governance is key to success; it is the engine that drives conservation especially in a community approach, because you are carrying thousands of people with you.
Tom Lalapaa, CEO, Northern Rangelands Trust
Who we are
A team of professionals with over 200 years of cumulative experience in international development, education, and animal welfare.