ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park, which is being joined with protected areas in South Africa and Mozambique, forming the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. It is surprising that this form of planning has not been explored in greater depth, in relation to trans-boundary partnerships, as it is evident that in such cases stakeholder collaboration and co-operation is inevitable. Caffyn argues that most authors focus on the processes involved in collaboration rather than how they may change as partnerships develop and aims to create a framework to trace the performance of collaboration over time. The chapter also considers the intensity of collaboration among the stakeholders. The stakeholders represent four major sectors the private, the public, the local community sector and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management, involved in the process. The economic situation has weakened over the last five years and Zimbabwe is unable to fund the project without outside donors.
