he CBNRM challenge is a community challenge to become self-sufficient in food security, job opportunities, education and improved health care by prospering from the conservation and commercial use of wildlife and other natural resources.  As communities take up this challenge, communities learn that lasting solutions to such problems as poverty and food security require a process for decision-making that invites all residents to participate.  This is not easy because openness often invites conflicts and arguments among dissenting views. The selection and training of community leaders therefore becomes a vital part of the CBNRM process to ensure leaders are qualified to facilitate public meetings and community-based organizations that are free and democratic.   

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s you might expect, CBNRM is a long-term process.  Governments and institutions helping to support it must stay committed to see the results, despite the inevitable mistakes and disappointments.  In Zambia the experiences have spanned over 12 years and provide a wealth of experience in ways that Government, institutions, private sector and communities have learned how to work together to increase CBNRM success and results for natural resources and household livelihoods. 

One of Zambia's longest serving CBNRM programs is ADMADE, the Administrative Management Design for Game Management Areas.   After nearly a decade of frustrating results and numerous mistakes in its approach to building community commitment and leadership, ADMADE is now building on its past mistakes with well-learned lessons that guide its future.  We invite you to look at some ADMADE communities as they learned from their mistakes, the problems they overcame, and their use of CBNRM skills towards becoming prosperous, self-sufficient wildlife managers.

Food Security

Waterhole Management

Border Management

	Wildlife Management Planning
	Management Skills
	Job creation
	Settlement Planning
	Land use planning