2098 Community Leaders Trained | 94% Improved Conservation Behaviours | 29% → 93% Men Always Proposing Solutions
A Decade of Evidence
LAMP for Community Conservation Leadership
For more than ten years funders have continued to commission the Leadership and Management Programme (LAMP) across East and Southern Africa in the community-led conservation sector. Those trained have been primarily indigenous people in pastoralist and coastal fisher communities, many of them organised as community conservancies, plus staff in conservation organisations active in those communities.
Repeatedly participants request more LAMP training for their managers, staff, community board members, women’s groups, rangers, youth and herders. A survey of the 2098 graduates, conducted in 2024, dug deep into the reasons for the success of LAMP.
The survey results do show the reasons why ...and more. The Decade of Evidence briefing gives the details.
Light for Wildlife is a documentary about LAMP and its impact on conservation, filmed across the communities where the programme is delivered. The documentary also follows Lavias Lekuuk, who attended LAMP in 2021 as a community youth representative and is now a fully qualified trainer.
From The Decade of Evidence
The Qualitative Impact of LAMP
The following findings are based on an inductive thematic analysis of 1,937 open-text responses, identifying patterns that emerged directly from participant feedback.
...and more
"I was a board member, but I understood nothing about the conservancy. I am confident now about my leadership position because I am informed. LAMP opened my mind and now I feel I can even proudly go and speak about the conservancy."
WOTE LEPINA, BOARD MEMBER, NKOTEIYA CONSERVANCY • GRADUATED 2021
"Before, my focus was about elders, but after the training I knew that conservation needed a collective way of making decisions, so you involve women, men and the Moran for you to be successful in conservation."
LEILIMO TIYIA, BOARD MEMBER, SERA CONSERVANCY • GRADUATED 2018
"After LAMP, I was promoted to Senior Chief. When I meet challenges I go back to check what LAMP taught me."
CHIEF ATIK, SENIOR CHIEF, KIUNGA COMMUNITY CONSERVANCY • GRADUATED 2021
"Elders never supported me much when I asked them to talk to the young people to stop killing wildlife, but after LAMP I get full support... after LAMP everything changed."
JAMES LEKALAILE, CONSERVANCY CHAIRMAN, NAAPU CONSERVANCY • GRADUATED 2017
2098 Community Leaders Trained
94% Improved Conservation Behaviours
29% → 93% Men Always Proposing Solutions
A Decade of Evidence
LAMP for Community Conservation Leadership
For more than ten years funders have continued to commission the Leadership and Management Programme (LAMP) across East and Southern Africa in the community-led conservation sector. Those trained have been primarily indigenous people in pastoralist and coastal fisher communities, many of them organised as community conservancies, plus staff in conservation organisations active in those communities.
Repeatedly participants request more LAMP training for their managers, staff, community board members, women’s groups, rangers, youth and herders. A survey of the 2098 graduates, conducted in 2024, dug deep into the reasons for the success of LAMP.
The survey results do show the reasons why ...and more. The Decade of Evidence briefing gives the details.
Light for Wildlife is a documentary about LAMP and its impact on conservation, filmed across the communities where the programme is delivered. The documentary also follows Lavias Lekuuk, who attended LAMP in 2021 as a community youth representative and is now a fully qualified trainer.
From The Decade of Evidence
The Qualitative Impact of LAMP
The following findings are based on an inductive thematic analysis of 1,937 open-text responses, identifying patterns that emerged directly from participant feedback.
...and more
"I was a board member, but I understood nothing about the conservancy. I am confident now about my leadership position because I am informed. LAMP opened my mind and now I feel I can even proudly go and speak about the conservancy."
WOTE LEPINA, BOARD MEMBER, NKOTEIYA CONSERVANCY • GRADUATED 2021
"Before, my focus was about elders, but after the training I knew that conservation needed a collective way of making decisions, so you involve women, men and the Moran for you to be successful in conservation."
LEILIMO TIYIA, BOARD MEMBER, SERA CONSERVANCY • GRADUATED 2018
"After LAMP, I was promoted to Senior Chief. When I meet challenges I go back to check what LAMP taught me."
CHIEF ATIK, SENIOR CHIEF, KIUNGA COMMUNITY CONSERVANCY • GRADUATED 2021
"Elders never supported me much when I asked them to talk to the young people to stop killing wildlife, but after LAMP I get full support... after LAMP everything changed."
JAMES LEKALAILE, CONSERVANCY CHAIRMAN, NAAPU CONSERVANCY • GRADUATED 2017
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