Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany)
The Rotary Foundation
Rotary District 1800 (Germany)
Peace Parks Foundation (PPF) has been working with the ‡Khomani San since 2012. The project that is currently managed through PPF is funded by BMZ (The German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development) and Rotary International. It aims to build ‡Khomani San livelihoods through supporting the operations of Erin Game Ranch and the Bushman Council Office. The funding has also been used to improve infrastructure and build facilities such as Erin Tented Camp,while also encouraging the intergenerational transfer of traditional knowledge by funding veldskool, youth and elders camps.
South African National Parks are the appointed conservation management agent of the Heritage Park and sit together with the Khomani San and the Mier Municipality on the Heritage Park’s Joint Management Board. SANParks are an active partner and work together with the San community on a number of related project, including the Kalahari Kids Programme as well as supporting the Imbewu Programme as needed.
Through their expert knowledge of wildlife ranching, this organisation provides technical support and advice regarding the management and operations of Erin Game Ranch. They have provided financial support to improve the ranch’s facilities and have also built community capacity through running courses to ensure community members are suitably qualified to work on the ranch.
In 1996, the South African San Institute (SASI) was asked by the Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa (WIMSA) and the ‡Khomani San leadership to assist with a land claim in the southern Kalahari Desert. Initially there were only 50 people who identified themselves as San from this remote corner of the South Africa. They were living and working at a tourist resort in the Western Cape Province, some 1000 km to the south of their place of origin… read more: www.sasi.org.za
The mission of the African Safari Lodge Foundation is to maximise the pro-poor impacts of nature tourism enterprises by increasing the flow of tangible benefits from these businesses into the households of local residents, via wages, supply contracts, equity agreements and local institutions that encourage fair and equitable distribution of such benefits.
As an organisation, the ASLF has been working with the ‡Khomani San 2007, whilst its technical advisors have been assisting the San since 1998.
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