Collaboration, Cooperation and Coordination in Protected Area Strategic Planning

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, Swiss Management Center University (School of Business Management), course: Doctorate in Management, language: English, abstract: Strategic planning involves decision makers at different levels discussing key issues of an organization in a structured manner. The structured steps include developing initial agreement for the strategic plan effort which provides the role and responsibilities of the team, the timing of reporting, processes and membership of the team. With the plethora of actors with different roles and responsibilities to ensure a successful production and implementation of an organization strategic plan; the need for collaboration, cooperation and coordination (3Cs) is imperative which must be champion by a sponsor. Protected areas for wildlife conservation found themselves in the category of organizations operating in a shared environment. Community collaborative wildlife management has emerged as one of the strategies to ensure wildlife resource sustenance (Larsen, 2006; Jachmann, 2007) because it is difficult to have on the spot policing. Gbele Resource Reserve (GRR) is a wildlife protected area in an environment of fringe communities having competing stakes with wildlife resources through poaching amidst wildlife law enforcement by the managers of the reserve. Key Words: collaboration, cooperation, coordination, conservation, poaching, wildlife

My name is Nana Owusu-Ansah. I am from Ghana and live in Ghana. I work with the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission of Ghana as a Park Manager in one the nation's reserves called Gbele Resource Reserve in the northern part of Ghana. I had my bachelor degree at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in renewable natural resources management in 2003. I had my MA in Environment Management and Policy from University of Cape Coast 2009. Both universities are in Ghana. These two previous studies have made me an interdisciplinary person with both natural science at the undergraduate level (renewable natural resources management where the training was geared towards conservation of biological resources) and to the graduate level where I studied policy that affects management of these resources. My interest is in sustainable utilization and governance issues concerning natural resources. My future plan is to become a university lecturer where I can impart knowledge and the experiences I have acquired to many that I may come into contact with. I can be contacted on +233243451949/+233200407093 Email: naduono74@yahoo.co.uk