O papel das ONG's no desenvolvimento comunitário da província de Tete, 1994 à actualidade - estudo de caso: impacto sócio-cultural do Tchuma Tchato no distrito de Mágoè

Abstract

The Administrative Post of Chinthopo belongs to the district of Mágoè, Province of Tete, located approximately 550KM from the capital city. It is in the administrative post of Chinthopo where the Bawa area is located, where the object of study of the present work was installed. Mágoè, is located to the south of the Cahora Bassa reservoir, to the east it borders the district of the same name; to the West with Zambia and to the South Zimbabwe. The district of Mágoè currently has an area of ​​around 8,697 km2 and an estimated population of around 45,414 inhabitants with a population density of 5 inhab/Km2. The authorization in 1993 of Piet Hougaard to develop hunting tourism in Chinthopo district of Mágoè changed the social relations in the region between this tour operator and the population. The populations could not live in their habitat, at the risk of being tortured because the land belonged to the tour operator. Once this was done, the living conditions of the populations deteriorated and the conflicts between the two social actors were aggravated. Later, because the faunal potential of the region was known, in 1994, a group of students arrived in Bawa, Administrative Post of Chinthopo, district of Mágoè, to carry out an ecological study of the elephant population in the region and to raise awareness of the importance of conservation of natural resources. In Chinthopo, this group of students faced the sad situation in which the populations were imposed. Back in Tete, these students proposed the creation of a pilot project for the management and management of natural resources, involving the communities. This project would become what the Tchuma tchatu program is today. The proposal also consisted of creating a partnership between the local government, the private operator and the local communities. It is in this perspective that Tchuma tchatu was born, a project at the beginning, and a program later. After its conception, a non-governmental organization of American origin was financed by the Ford Foundation. Once this project was implemented, today the program has brought considerable changes to the region that the population recognizes. And it is in these transformations that its socio-cultural impact resides that, despite small gaps, we can consider it positive. Therefore, it is this social approach that this degree work is about. Overall, this work addresses what motivated the design of the project, objectives, philosophy, what was accomplished, failures and difficulties in the implementation process, successes and prospects(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)