Tsavo Conservation Area Management Plan
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS)
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Abstract: This 10-year (2008-2018) management plan for the Tsavo Conservation Area (TCA) is the second KWS management plan piloting the new Protected Area Planning Framework (PAPF). The PAPF aims to ensure that all new KWS protected area management plans are developed according to a standardised process and have a similar structure. In line with the PAPF, the TCA plan has been developed in a highly participatory manner, incorporating and building on ideas from a broad cross-section of TCA stakeholders. The plan is designed to be a highly practical management tool supporting TCA management in carrying out their duties. Towards this end, the plan sets out strategic guidance on the goals (the purpose statements and subsidiary objectives) towards which management is working, and a series of straightforward prescriptions and management actions that need to be implemented in order to achieve these aims. In addition, the TCA plan structure has been developed to be as simple as possible, and as such, easily understood by stakeholders and implemented by TCA management. At the heart of the plan is the TCA zonation scheme and the five management programmes, each of which cover an essential aspect of PA management. These five programmes are: Ecological Management Programme, Tourism Development and Management Programme, Community Partnership and Conservation Education Programme, Security Programme, Protected Area Operations Programme. Each programme contains a programme purpose statement that sets out the overall goal management is working towards, and a series of management objectives designed to achieve this purpose. Under each objective are a series of discrete management actions that will be implemented during the 10-year lifespan of this plan, and which will result in the achievement of their overarching objective. Each of the management programmes is completed by a 3-year Activity Plan. These plans provide the vital link between the management plan’s 10-year strategic outlook, and the day-to-day management operations in the TCA. Each plan breaks down the individual management actions to be completed in the first three years of the plan implementation period into a series of tangible management activities, which in turn provides the basis for annual operational planning and budgeting by TCA managers.