The Kenya RangER programme seeks to eradicate poverty through enhancing the productivity of ecosystem services provided by rangelands for food-feed-human-and-wildlife security in the Amaya Triangle counties of Laikipia, Samburu, Isiolo and Baringo through investments in evidence-based climate-smart feed resources.
Read MoreA hundred and thirty women conservation leaders met during the International Women’s Day to celebrate milestones achieved though the community conservation model.
Read MoreShe grew up dreaming of becoming a hotelier, but last week Joy Lenawalbene was appointed Samburu County’s first female Chief. “It never crossed my mind that I would one day lead my community,” she says.
Read MoreNRT, Samburu County Government, and all the nine community conservancies in the county (Westgate, Sera, Kalama, Nkoteiya, Meibae, Ngilai, Naluwon, and Kalepo) have today signed a five-year tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide a formal framework for structured, effective and efficient collaboration and drive forward collaborations in the development and strengthening of technical cooperation in community-led conservation in the county.
Read MoreCounty Assembly of Samburu have approved the Samburu County Community Conservancies Fund Bill, 2019. The Bill seeks to fund community owned conservancies, starting with KSH. 120 million this financial year. Samburu is the first County to approve such a bill, which will have significant impact on the ability for community conservancies – who largely still rely on donor funding – to be independent and sustainable.
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