Village scouts monitor legal uses of wildlife, such as safari hunting, using dataforms with skills they learn at the College.  From this information, local residents, also trained at the College, summarize these results to assess various indicators of wildlife abundance as well as income earnings for the year.  Community leaders then can use this information to assess trends to determine if management efforts are producing desired results or meeting management targets.
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Dataform		Summary results		Trend analysis
By having this information collected, analyzed and presented at the community level, residents learn the value of wildlife through legal, commercial markets and recognize the link between their own management and development efforts and improved revenues from their wildlife resources.

Financial incentives for communities to produce wildlife

	Over $530,000 returned to communities in 1999 to invest in wildlife management, creating over 650 jobs for local residents as village scouts to protect wildlife.
	Over $465,000 returned in 1999 to provide financial resources for communities to build clinics, buy food relief and agricultural inputs, repair and build schools, and provide credit for small community enterprises.
	Local chiefs receive 5% of community revenues for their role as traditional leaders in land management.

Land use plans guiding community respect for natural resources.

	Six communities have developed their own set of guidelines and by-laws for reducing land use activities that threaten revenue benefits through ADMADE.
	Seven cases where communities have decided on their own to shift to human settlements out of wildlife sensitive areas to promote wildlife tourism as a land use.

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