MCC’s $295.7 million Namibia Compact (2009-2014) funded the $18.3 Conservancy Support Activity. The activity aimed to build capacity of conservancies – areas where communities living on communal land manage and benefit from the area’s natural resources – to protect natural resources and to increase investment, employment, equitable revenue distribution, and incomes. Sub-activities included a needs assessment, training, and the Conservancy Development Support Grants Fund to support joint ventures with private sector firms and wild animal relocation.