Effective and strategic community peace-building is built on a foundation of inclusive consultation throughout the process. At each phase, priority is given to listening to the community, and intentionally seeking out different voices. Community perspectives and priorities set the agenda for each subsequent meeting and activity. The conservancy and the relationship conservancies have with NRT creates a neutral platform to bring people together for dialogue, offering an alternative dispute resolution option to violence.
Over, 10,445 community members (8,886 men and 1,559 women) were engaged in different peace-building activities in 5 counties in 2022. 125 peace ambassadors (31 of whom are women) have been recruited and trained to help prevent conflict amongst their peers. Most are from conflict hotspot areas, and have been instrumental in addressing intertribal conflicts and averting livestock raids through early warning systems, gathering information, intercepting retaliatory attacks, supporting and leading negotiations and reconciliations in the community.