Namibian Association of CBNRM Support Organisations

The Namibian Association of CBNRM Support Organisations (NACSO) is a consortium of nine Namibian civil society organizations that work together to support, promote and strengthen community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Since its founding in the 1990s, NACSO has played a key role in the development of Namibia’s CBNRM program, which today has expanded to deliver a growing suite of critical conservation, rural development, tourism investment, and economic diversification functions.

NACSO’s key functions are to coordinate the delivery of technical support services related to CBNRM - originally focused on the conservancies but now broadened to include community forests and a more holistic suite of natural resource management issues - to rural communities, as well as providing a collective action body for influencing policy and engaging with government. NACSO also plays key monitoring, informational and communication functions, such as its annual or bi-annual State of Community Conservation in Namibia reports, and the information database covering different CBNRM impacts that they draw on.

Learn more: nacso.org.na