Collaboration, Cooperation and Coordination in Protected Area Strategic Planning : Gbele Resource Reserve (GRR), Ghana

Scholarly Research paper 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