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E. Community Outreach Programme<br />

Mitigation of environmental impacts of major Community<br />

Outreach Programme actions<br />

The potential negative environmental impacts of the major Community Outreach Programme<br />

actions and proposed mitigating measures to reduce, eliminate or offset adverse affects are<br />

highlighted in Table E.1 below.<br />

Table E.1: Mitigation measures for major Community Outreach Programme<br />

actions<br />

Major action<br />

1.2.2: Provide<br />

support for<br />

conservationfriendly,incomegenerating<br />

activities<br />

Potential negative impact<br />

Increased immigration<br />

into areas surrounding<br />

SENAPA as a result of<br />

benefits generated by<br />

Outreach Department<br />

Benefits from IGAs are<br />

unfairly captured by<br />

wealthy/ powerful com-<br />

Mitigation measure<br />

� Ensure any SCIP or IGA activities target<br />

existing and well established<br />

communities<br />

� Monitor immigration rates into areas<br />

where community outreach activities<br />

operate<br />

� Target support towards activities that<br />

will benefit the poorest/ marginalised<br />

sections of society<br />

munity members � Ensure any initiatives developed are<br />

through community based organisa-<br />

SENAPA’s high quality<br />

tourism product is degraded<br />

by inappropriate<br />

initiatives or activities<br />

(e.g. unlicensed hawkers<br />

around the airstrip)<br />

tions<br />

� Raise awareness to community members<br />

of the negative effects of inappropriate<br />

activities on the SENAPA<br />

tourism experience<br />

� If necessary, support the formation of<br />

village bylaws to prevent inappropriate<br />

activities<br />

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