Southern Africa hosts several TBNRM initiatives and, as region, counts more TFCAs than any other. In 2013, The Member States developed within the Southern African Development Community a programme specifically aimed at fostering and harmonising the implementation and establishment of TFCAs. Under the Programme, the SADC TFCA Network was established and grew in less than a decade, bringing insight on the role TFCAs can play for peacebuilding and sustainability.
This session aims at presenting the history of the processes leading to the consolidation of the network, its membership and stakeholders, its activities and achievements. It will focus specifically on governance and harmonisation aspects of the network, and highlight how the very existence of the network has enabled cross-country cooperation beyond the environment sector and enhanced multi-stakeholder engagement, following a very organic pathway. The audience will be challenged to delve deeper in this aspects in the discussion
