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Acronyms and Abbreviations

ACTS

Africa Centre for Technology Studies

AIG

Alternative Income Generation

CBBP

Cross-Borders Biodiversity Project

CBD

Convention on Biological Diversity

CBO

Community-Based Organization

CFM

Community Forest Management

DFID

Department for International Development (U.K.)

DOA

Deutsch Ost-Afrika

EAC

East African Community

EACSO

East African Common Services Organisation

EU

European Union

FBD

Forest and Beekeeping Division (Tanzania)

GEF

Global Environment Facility

GMP

General Management Plan

ICDP

Integrated Conservation and Development Project

IDA

International Development Association (World Bank)

IUCN

The World Conservation Union (formerly known as the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources)

JFM

Joint Forest Management

KBO

Kagera Basin Organisation

LC

Local Council

MUIENR

Makerere University Institute of Environment and Natural Resources

MSBF

Minziro-Sango Bay Forest Reserves

NGO

Nongovernmental Organization

PA

Protected Area

PRA

Participatory Rural Appraisal

PWD

Public Works Department

RC

Resistance Council

SSC

Site-level Steering Committee

TBNRM

Transboundary Natural Resource Management

TBNRMA

TBNRM Area

TBNRMP

TBNRM Process

TT

Tanganyika Territory (the former name for what is now Tanzania)

UFD

Uganda Forest Department

UNEP

United Nations Environment Programme

UNDP

United Nations Development Programme

VEC

Village Environment Committee