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Director Executivo: Rui de Vasconcelos* Sede: AAAJC* Telefone: 20030252*Cidade de Tete *Chingodzi* Editado em Português e Inglês
A organização de grupos ou comunidades deve ser através a gestão dos recursos, o que tem obrigado a criação de comités locais
dos já consolidados comités de gestão comunitária, separados. Esta situação tem provocado ambiente conflituoso e
associações comunitárias, grupos de interesse que visam oposto ao desejado, pois é notória a falta de coordenação entre os
reduzir os custos de transação, através da repartição dos vários instrumentos legais sobre a gestão sustentável dos recursos
mesmos entre vários intervenientes. Contudo, ainda persistem naturais. O que poderá no futuro ser prejudicial às organizações
comunidades que não estão organizadas, o que tem comunitárias de base e mesmo para as comunidades locais nas áreas
dificultado a implementação do MCRN principalmente de influência.
quando se pretende retornar os benefícios tangíveis
provenientes da taxas de exploração.
A existência de diversas formas de representação das
comunidades dá muita flexibilidade na implementação das
Parceiros:
iniciativas de MCRN. Com efeito, dependendo das
características de cada comunidade pode-se escolher a forma
de representação mais conveniente e eficiente. Esta
diversidade, pode às vezes criar problemas de implementação
quando numa comunidade existem representantes já
estabelecidos e ainda assim, são estabelecidos outros
representantes, complicando os procedimentos de gestão e
comunicação interna dentro da comunidade.
Actualmente existem nas comunidades alguns sectores como
água, terra, pesca e florestas com estratégias particulares para
Quem somos? Associação de Apoio e Assistência Jurídica as Comunidades (AAAJC), é uma organização da Sociedade Civil
Moçambicana, não-governamental, sem fins lucrativos, de âmbito nacional, fundada em 2008 e com os seus estatutos legal-
mente publicados em 2010 no Boletim da República nº. 2, III serie, 4º suplemento de 19 de Janeiro. A sede é na cidade de Tete.
Penhane OFICIAL REPORT CARD OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR SUPPORT AND LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO COMMUNITIES
The Executive Director: Rui de Vasconcelos* Phone: 20030252*City of Tete-Mozambique* Edited in Portuguese & English
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How to join Government, Communities, Privates and NGOs in Community Natural Re-
source Management?
The Association for Support and Legal Assistance to Communities etc. The rights of use and access to natural resources by communi-
has in its hands a complex case study to bring together the Govern- ties may be established by customary rules or through acquired and
ment as representative of the State, local communities, the private registered rights (DUAT). These two actors should be joined by the
sector and community associations and others in the joint pursuit of Private Sector as it is composed of natural or collective individuals
solutions for the sustainable management of natural resources involved in commercial exploitation of natural resources. Their par-
through community management. Is that the State, which is both the ticipation in NRMC is important in that they can provide technical
owner of the resource, legislator and law enforcement agent and and technological support, mobilize financial resources, promote
protector of the interests of the communities, must also, in its role, business opportunities, facilitate market access, encourage and col-
provide technical assistance to the communities and to the NRMC laborate in educating the population to conservation of natural re-
programs in general, ensuring the delivery to the communities, ben- sources. Access to resources by private agents may be through a
efits from exploiting forest and wildlife resources and advising com- concession contract that has community consultation with the State
munities on setting priorities for local development. or through partnerships with local DUAT-bearing communities.
According to AAAJC the State that can be represented by the Cen- Building on this mission is a range of NGOs that normally assist
tral or Local government depending on the strategy and importance local communities in the design and implementation of local devel-
of the issue, can through the DNTF and SPFFB, as well as the District opment programs and projects. NGOs have no interest in benefiting
Services are the entities responsible for representing the State in the from community natural resource management operations by plac-
NRMC. The State may establish mechanisms for co-managing exist- ing them in a relatively neutral position with respect to the resulting
ing natural resources in the management areas under its responsibil- benefits. They are therefore important in fostering NRMC initiatives
ity from conservation areas and may return resources to communi- as facilitators and mediators in community, private and state rela-
ties. tions. Thus, NGOs that also involve CBOs and others contribute to
empowering community-based organizations and state agents on
Local communities, in turn, are the main agents of the NRMC pro- the laws and regulations and the essential participatory methods in
cess, usually with their own forms of organization and structuring. the NRMC.
Other forms of representation of local communities are community
leaders and their collaborators, the land committee, the water com-
mittee, interest groups, the council or councils of churches, mosques,
The organization of groups or communities should be through local committees. This situation has caused a conflicting and
already consolidated community management committees, com- opposite environment, as there is a lack of coordination be-
munity associations, interest groups that aim to reduce transac- tween the various legal instruments on the sustainable man-
tion costs by sharing them among various actors. However, non- agement of natural resources. This could in the future be det-
organized communities still persist, which has made it difficult rimental to grassroots community organizations and even to
to implement NRMC especially when it is intended to return local communities in areas of influence.
tangible benefits from exploitation fees.
Who we are? Association for Support and Legal Assistance to Communities (AAAJC), is a non-governmental, non-profit,
Mozambican Civil Society organization, nationwide, founded in 2008 and with its statutes published in 2010 in Bulletin of Re-
public no. 2, III series, 4th supplement of 19 January. The headquarters is in the city of Tete.