Research at The African College

rowth and expansion of ADMADE over the past 10 years has attributed to a strong reliance on monitoring and results analysis to help guide needed policy reforms and methodologies for increasing program success.  The College has a team of qualified researchers in CBNRM sciences for carrying out this work and for ensuring these results are fed into curriculum development and training approaches that the College offers to rural communities.  In this way the College tries to track both ADMADE successes and mistakes in almost real time.  This reduces chances of communities repeating mistakes of other communities while more effectively expanding tested CBNRM applications in other communities. 

his approach of adaptive management has proven so useful for the development of the College as a CBNRM training institution that the the College is now teaching community leaders how to apply it themselves with data they collect. This is producing some incredible results of local community researchers now able to provide accurate data on wildlife population trends, results of livelihood skills on improved resource management, and map inventories of natural resources and much more.  Even more exciting is the growing capacity of community leaders to use these data to enhance their CBNRM results with improved resource management plans, land use plans and hunting quotas.

n the coming years the College intends to focus more effort on building local capacity to collect and use their own data to help plan improved links with markets and resource use opportunities that support livelihood needs and adopt sustained resource-use practices.  ADMADE's vision is that communities will recognize the economic importance of investing in such skills and will employ their own capable sons and daughters to become technically qualified to do this work.  The College will be ready to provide the training.

n recent years the College has produced a number of important research results on CBNRM for general circulation to the public and concerned stakeholders of CBNRM activities in Zambia.  Many of them are available on this web site as "Lessons-learned Papers" for your own possible interest in CBNRM and results on the ADMADE program.

Research Papers written by College staff:

1. Alternative approaches for counting wildlife
2. CBNRM training
3. CBNRM institutions
4. Food security
5. Role of democracy
6. Case study in achieving ADMADE success: Mwanya 2000
7. A rural development approach to wildlife conservation
8. Comparative study of GMAs
   1. Comparative study of GMAs--executive summary
   2. Comparative study of GMAs--text
   3. Comparative study of GMAs--part one
   4. Comparative study of GMAs--part two
   5. Comparative study of GMAs--part three
   6. Comparative study of GMAs--part four
   7. Comparative study of GMAs--part four a
   8. Comparative study of GMAs--part five
9. Review of social and economic baseline survey
10. ADMADE community constitution of Zambia

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