The mounting climate change, systemic poverty, and rapid biodiversity loss are jointly pushing Kenya's rural communities to high levels of inequality, vulnerability and fragility. We work together with the local actors and diverse partners in Kenya to accompany these left behind communities in restoring their degraded landscapes, adapting to climate change, and building resilient and regenerative local economies for themselves and generations to come.
Our role focuses on five Strategic Thematic Areas (STAs):
(i) Practical landscape restoration and land regeneration at scale on selected community forests, public lands, and voluntary privately owned lands.
(ii) Financial and nonfinancial ecosystem-based incentives for smallholder farmer groups/organizations, community-based organizations (CBOs), and community-based cooperative societies as reliable community champions.
(iii) 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.
(iv) 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.
(v) Local capacity development and technical assistance to KERA, our indigenous Regional Facilitating Agencies (RFAs), and collaborating county governments.
Our 10-year Action Plan holistically implements 29 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) within the frame of 12 Key Result Areas (KRAs), aiming to restore and regenerate 593,969 hectares of functional and productive ecosystems and building the resilience of 6,011,523 households by 1st July 2035.