• In 2004, total benefits flowing to conservancy communities, including employment income, cash from tourist fees and leases, and in-kind benefits like game meat, reached N$14.1 million (US$2.5 million).
  
  
• Conservancy-related activities, including tourism, have provided 547 full-time and 3,250 part-time jobs since 1998.
  
  
• Women’s livelihoods and status have improved. Women fill almost 3,000 of the new part-time jobs, and more than half the full-time posts. They make up 50 percent of conservancy members, constitute 30 percent of conservancy committee members, and chair three conservancies.
  
  
• Seven of the program’s 12 support NGOs are now black-led (compared
  with none in 1995).
  
  
• In 2003, conservancies and CBNRM support enterprises contributed an estimated N$79 million (US$9.6 million) to Namibia’s Net National Income, and this contribution is expected to rise rapidly in the years ahead.

Source: WWF and Rossing Foundation 2004:v-vi