About Us

About KERA

Ecosystem Restoration Alliance of Kenya (KERA) is a national youth-led NGO that focuses on large-scale landscape restoration and land regeneration across vulnerable rural areas and indigenous communities in Kenya.

Our role advances: Practical landscape restoration and land regeneration at scale; financial and nonfinancial ecosystem-based incentives; invasive Prosopis species management and control; public education and advocacy; and capacity development and technical assistance to local community champions.

We are excited to be an official actor of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021 – 2030) in Kenya and the Lead Country Implementing Agency for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Food Challenge.

KERA has a national presence and impact reach: active in 47 devolved governance units, (counties) and across 20 university campuses. Headquartered in Nairobi city, we are opening two regional offices in Kisumu city for coordinating our activities within the Lake Region Economic Bloc (LREB) counties and Hola town for coordinating activities within Coastal and North Eastern counties. The Facilitating Agencies (RFAs) host our activities at the Regional level working together with our County Coordinators for the counties within their respective regions of mandates.

We deliver our programmatic activities through four pathways of empowerment:

  • (i). Developing the institutional capacities of 9 Regional Facilitating Agencies (promising Youth Serving Organizations/affiliates and the national university students constituency) to implement dedicated projects.
  • (ii). Organizing, capacity developing and financing ward-based KERA-modeled nature positive cooperative societies or community based organizations.
  • (iii). Partnering with the county governments for shared visioning and resourcing of county-based, nature-positive implementation.
  • (iv). Working together with the nature positive ambassadors (transformative youth leaders) for grassroots coordination and mobilization.

Modus Operandi

We adopt a highly unique collaborative, people-driven, and village-based approach through Local Systems Strengthening, focusing on vulnerable communities, groups, and people who need our intervention the most.