Key Result Areas

Our role advances 29 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across 12 Key Result Areas (KRAs) and within the frame of 5 Strategic Thematic Areas (STAs). The 5 Strategic Thematic Areas (STAs) and 12 Key Result Areas (KRAs) are highlighted below:

STA 1. Practical landscape restoration and land regeneration at scale on selected community forests, public lands, and voluntary privately owned lands.

  • KRA #1.1: Landscape restoration at scale by focusing on afforestation, reforestation and agroforestry management on forest landscapes and arable lands.
  • KRA #1.2: Coastal wetlands restoration by enhancing blue carbon sequestration through large-scale mangrove restoration.

STA #2: Financial and nonfinancial ecosystem-based incentives for smallholder farmer groups/organizations, community-based organizations (CBOs), and community-based cooperative societies as reliable community champions.

  • KRA #2.1: Incentives for Ecosystem Services (IES) by supporting nine selected climate resilient, low-carbon and environmentally sustainable agri-food value chains: African leafy vegetables, indigenous poultry, beekeeping, silkworm, cricket, mango, cashew, maize, and rice.
  • KRA #2.2: Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) by rewarding community farmer groups/organizations, community based organizations and community-based cooperative societies empowered by KERA and partners to coordinate community-led management for the restoration and regeneration sites.
  • KRA #2.3: Risk insurance by accompanying rural communities and indigenous peoples to become more resilient to weather extremes that could affect community-led landscape restoration projects, community carbon projects, Prosopis management projects, and community ecological agricultural initiatives/projects in the nine selected value chains.

STA #3: Invasive Prosopis species management and control by restoring and regenerating cleared farmlands and grasslands while conserving biodiversity and facilitating Prosopis-based industrial innovation and development.

  • KRA #3.1: Robust biochar and biochar-based biofertilizer value chain, by gearing towards transforming Prosopis juliflora from an invasive threat into biochar and biochar-based biofertilizers for KERA's upcoming biochar-based landscape restoration, nationwide consumption and smallholder farmers who transition to organic fertilizer-based low carbon farming.
  • KRA #3.2: Fully-fledged multi-stakeholder led Ecological Restoration Team, Community Engagement Team, and Economic Platform Team, by investing in the three established teams to continue providing science-based insights, guidance and initiatives for systemic social, ecological and economic approaches and outcomes.

STA #4: Public education and advocacy on sustainable landscape restoration; ethical land-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR); climate resilient, low-carbon, environmentally sustainable agri-food value chains; and sustainable Prosopis management and control.

  • KRA #4.1:Public Education and Advocacy, by increasing knowledge, awareness and civic engagement empowerment in regards to sustainable ecosystem and ecological restoration.
  • KRA #4.2: Public Knowledge Sharing, by openly disseminating information and expertise regarding landscape restoration, ecological agriculture, land-based carbon storage, Prosopis juliflora management and control, and local system strengthening; allowing anyone to access and utilize knowledge without restrictions.

STA #5: Local Capacity development and technical assistance to KERA, our indigenous Regional Facilitating Agencies (RFAs), and collaborating county governments.

  • KRA #5.1: KERA Institutional Capacity Development and Sustainable Financial Capacity and Partnership Development
  • KRA #5.2: Capacity development and technical assistance to the nine Regional Facilitating Agencies (RFAs).
  • KRA #5.3: Technical assistance to the in-line county government departments and county assemblies in community-led landscape restoration, community-led carbon removal, Prosopis management and control, and community-based ecological agriculture for the nine selected value chains.

Cross-cutting Themes

(i) Gender equality and women empowerment, by enhancing gender transformative approaches in ecosystem and ecological restoration.

(ii) Indigenous peoples' biosystems technical knowledge, by ensuring the preservation of local knowledge and biodiversity alike.

(iii) Positive Youth Development ( PYD), by optimizing the involvement of youth and young women in all aspects of our work, staffing governance and leadership.

(iv) Sustainable Rural Development, by prioritizing facilitation of rural societal transformative thinking in the natural resource management sector.