Practitioner’s Toolkit: Monitoring Livelihoods in Transfrontier Conservation Areas - the KAZA experience

The community-based livelihoods monitoring toolkit for KAZA has been created to help people track and improve their way of living over time. It is designed to use the same methods everywhere so that information can be compared between different places and across different years. This makes it easier to see patterns and understand changes happening in the community. The toolkit helps gather reliable information that can be used to make smart decisions. By collecting good data, communities and leaders can adjust their plans based on real evidence rather than guesswork. This also helps when they need to report their progress to others.

able of Content Part 1. Unpacking Community-based monitoring 10 o Background and principles 10 • Chapter 1. monitoring as community science 11 o The role of technical experts 12 o Further reading 15 • Chapter 2. The purpose of monitoring 16 o Monitoring for learning & adaptive management 18 o Monitoring to collect reliable data to test assumptions and hypotheses 20 o Further reading 21 • Chapter 3. Community participation 22 o Ethics in Community-based Monitoring 26 o Collaboration and partnership 30 o 10 Principles for Building lasting Relationships with Local People in TFCA monitoring 31 o Further reading 33 Part 2. Tools for Community-Based Livelihoods Monitoring The KAZA Experience 34 • Chapter 5. Tools for preparation 35 o Stakeholder analysis - Identifying who should be involved 36 o Initial meeting with key informants and community leaders 39 o Selecting and Training Local Facilitators 43 o The sustainable livelihoods framework - a shared foundation 46 • Chapter 6. Livelihoods monitoring tools: a practitioner’s guide 48 o Household surveys using Kobo Toolbox 51 o Participatory monitoring 57 o Preparing for participatory monitoring workshops 60 o Participatory monitoring tools 64 o Templates for data entry and storage 73 • Chapter 7. Community feedback 80 Glossary 84

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• KAZA livelihoods. Monitoring tool kit