What is CBNRM? 
How does ADMADE support it?

  Community Based Natural Resource Management:  

History of CBNRM in Zambia
  IS A LAND USE.
Harvesting Wildlife as a consumptive use is strongly engrained in Zambian culture, but managing it sustainably must often be learned.  ADMADE provides an integrated way to do this by merging the history and traditions of Zambians with management approaches that sustain resource uses through improved uses of the land.  

Goals of the CBNRM program
    IS A PROCESS 
It is a gradual process that builds upon the level of leadership and skills found in a community to organize community participation through community-based organizations.  Such organizations are motivated by the goal of developing wildlife as an economic asset for overcoming household livelihood needs. ADMADE provides a clear structure for developing local organizations that respond to the self-expressed needs of community residents.

Challenges for the CBNRM program
   IS POWER.
Through ADMADE, community members learn how to organize themselves and gain access to their leaders and Government authorities to influence how decisions are made that may help them overcome their own problems.  This is called community empowerment.  Through this process, communities gain skills and understanding and are better able to face the inherent challenges of resource management and find their own solutions to them in order to enhance a better standard of living.

Structure of the CBNRM program
 IS AN ORGANIZATION.
It is a community organization for natural resource management based on effective leadership and community-wide participation.  ADMADE transfers the responsibility and benefits of managing wildlife to rural communities. 
Results of the CBNRM program
IS A BUSINESS ENTERPRISE.
ADMADE creates opportunities for household groups to embark on business enterprises that help reduce poverty levels.  This is done by introducing new livelihood skills that also improve resource management practices and by promoting market linkages that create new sources of legal income. On a community level, ADMADE is very much a business enterprise because ZAWA returns a major portion of the license fees paid for by licensed hunters and tourist operators to the community.  Community members then sit and plan through their community-based organizations on how to use these funds.  One way this is done is by offering loans to small scale business groups to help households gain legal income from an appropriate livelihood approach.   Growth and expansion of ADMADE over the past 10 years is attributed to a strong reliance on monitoring and evaluation results to help guide needed policy reforms which increase program success and profit. 
 

the future of CBNRM in Zambia
IS FOR ZAMBIANS.
It is a strong foundation from which wildlife conservation can grow in Zambia. Poor people who otherwise may be forced to destroy wildlife resources for short-term, illegal markets now benefit legally from wildlife and see real incentives for protecting this resource.  More wildlife resources provide Zambian investors and tour operators with more opportunities to work with rural communities as partners in tourism enterprises. ADMADE is Zambia's best solution to wildlife conservation and is providing an important future for rural communities to become self-reliant and responsible for the resources they live with.