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Author: Andrew John Lyons 1014 NW 15th Avenue Phone: 352-336-7795 The ADMADE conservation program in Zambia has over 10 years of experience using GIS technology to support rural communities in managing their natural resources. Through this government program, communities in game management areas become partners with government and private industry to sustainably manage their wildlife resources, striving to achieve both conservation and development. GIS tools and outputs have proven invaluable for analyzing issues and providing feedback to communities on the effectiveness of their resource management activities and developing land use plans. ADMADE has recently upgraded their GIS to a truly integrated relational database, building on years of experience in collecting and analyzing spatial and tabular data. Developed using MS Access and MapObjects, the GIS-enabled database offers exciting new capabilities to analyze data at new scales, improve data quality, automate outputs, and reduce turnaround time. This user-friendly application has also opened new possibilities for sharing monitoring results and is being used at the project training center, the Zambia Wildlife Authority headquarters, the primary donor USAID, and in the field with monitoring teams using laptops. |
