Acknowledgements
This research could not have been possible without the help of numerous individuals who assisted me while working in Zambia for a period of almost one year. First and foremost, I am very grateful to the ADMADE scouts and Unit staff who were patient in answering my endless questions about their roles and perceptions of monitoring. I am also indebted to the staff of the Nyamaluma Institute for Community Based Resource Management, especially Dale Lewis, James Katumbi, Phillip Ngulube, and William Banda, for orienting me to Nyamaluma's monitoring and training systems, and sharing the often unwritten history of ADMADE's experiment in CBNRM. I am also grateful to senior officers of the Zambia Wildlife Authority (formerly National Parks and Wildlife Services), in particular Ackim Mwenya, Gilson Kaweche, and Henry Mwima, for supporting this research and offering useful suggestions. I am additionally thankful to the Agricultural Development Office at USAID/Zambia, in particular Dave Soroko and Morse Nanchengwa, for their assistance and support of this research. Finally, this work could not have been possible with the support of my supervisory committee at the University of Florida, Drs. Susan Jacobson and Colin Chapman, who helped me design the study and secure funding to work in Zambia.
This study was funded by the Wildlife Conservation Society of New York, the Tropical Conservation and Development Program at the University of Florida, and USAID/Zambia.
Andy Lyons
September 1999