Defining CBNRM

1- CBNRM is both a conservation and rural development strategy, involving community mobilization and organization, institutional development, comprehensive training, enterprise development, and monitoring of the natural resource base "IUCN".

2- CBNRM is a bottom up approach to the integration of conservation and development "Cornell International Institute for Food and Agriculture and Development".

3-CBNRM came about, to a large extent, as the result of two difference processes. Firstly, It is a grassroots, bottom up  agenda, inspired by the goals of sustainable development and biodiversity conservation, gradually broadening and transforming itself to also include a social agenda and the becoming a broad social movement of sort. The second process is micro level, top down effort spearheaded by multilateral funding agencies, bilateral donors, and  above all, international NGOs and organization devoted to practical work and research.' In addition, the many actors, that is stakeholders, and agendas that constitute these two process are increasingly meeting, somewhere in the middle, aligning their experience, realizing that they have the same goals, and that they stand greater chance of making a difference by joining hands, as well as their often different means of resource "World Bank".

4- CBNRM is the management of natural resources under a detailed plan developed and agreed to by all concerned stakeholders. The approach is community based in that communities managing the resource have the legal right, the local institutions and the economic incentives to take the substantial responsibility for sustained use of these resource. Under natural resource managing plans, communities become the primary implementers, assisted and monitors by technical services "USAID".

5- CBNRM addresses interaction among the factors that influence natural resource access, use and management patterns. The participation and leadership of local people are essential   in CBNRM's approach as innovations must be built on voluntary improvement to local knowledge and practice, rather than imposed from outside. It also require recognition of the heterogeneity and multiple interest of different community members and outside resource users "IDRC".

Note: CBNRM= Community Based Natural Resource Management