Evidence
We measure what we claim.
Every year we interview our partners, survey our learners, and assess competence before and after every course. This page is built from that data — including its limits.
organisations supported
countries reached
people trained & certified by LEAD
km² protected, by teams we develop and support
How we know
Three streams of evidence, every year.
Partner interviews
Senior management of every recently trained organisation, interviewed 6–12 months after the intervention: did it meet their needs, what changed, what stalled.
Learner surveys
Individual learners, 6–24 months post-course: skills applied in real incidents, confidence over time, in-house training delivered.
Competency assessment
Pre- and post-course measurement on every course: what learners could do before, and what they can demonstrably do after.
Honesty about limits: our samples are small and learner selection is not random — the full reports say so explicitly, alongside methodology and raw outcomes. Ask us for them; we share them in full.
What the evidence shows
Four findings that matter.
Lives saved, documented
25 first-aid interventions by learners in 2025 — snake bites, buffalo attacks, road accidents, gunshot wounds. Every known outcome: survival. Zero reported incidents of incorrect technique.
“I attended a boy bitten by a red spitting cobra and managed to apply a snake bandage. The boy survived the poison [sic] effects.” — learner, Kenya
Independence, in one year
The share of surveyed partners running their own in-house training rose from 66% to 100%. One Kenyan partner has trained 90% of its entire ranger workforce with its own instructors.
“The training budget now allows for more. We reallocated toward equipment for rangers and welfare.” — partner organisation
From reactive to proactive
Of analysts surveyed after our problem-solving course, 80% apply all tools in their work — analysing wildlife crime patterns, mapping human-wildlife conflict, and uncovering previously unknown wildlife trade.
“Problem analysis is now a routine step before any field response.” — analyst learner
Communities feel it
Partners reporting direct community benefit: trained first responders within reach, safer coexistence with wildlife, and 13,296 community members and students educated by ranger instructors.
“The communities are more positive toward rangers. There is a better relationship.” — partner organisation
less snaring across 1,300 km² — within one year
LEAD-mentored teams applied the Integrated Threat Reduction framework at the preventive tier: understanding who set snares and why, then changing the conditions that made snaring worthwhile. The photograph is theirs — wire recovered from the forest.
Read the full case study“Our rangers would not have been able to get to where they are if it were not for the LEAD programme — it has helped them grow and leapfrog beyond their wildest dreams.”
Recognition
2× Herman Goldstein Award
International recognition of partners for excellence in problem-oriented policing — applied to conservation.
ASU POP Center resource
Integrated Threat Reduction is listed as a wilderness-problems resource by Arizona State University’s Center for Problem-Oriented Policing.
ANBI certified
Dutch public-benefit status (RSIN 856 268 781) — with the transparency and annual reporting duties that come with it.
Go deeper
Read the full reports, then decide.
The annual Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning report — methodology, sample sizes, limitations, and findings — is available on request.