The ISSUE programme is a consortium of key environmental stakeholders in Nakuru Municipality aiming at the protection of the Lake Nakuru ecosystem and the support to livelihoods. The project seeks to address the following:

a) Utilize community skills and resources to enhance the conservation of River Ndarugu and rehabilitation of the river ecosystem, land and social livelihood systems
b) Demonstrate technologies and models for rehabilitation of degraded land to be incorporated in the mining processes
Capacity of key stakeholders built so that they are able to undertake measures to rehabilitate and conserve the natural resource base (land, vegetation and the river)

It is expected that when completed, this project will see capacity of key stakeholders improved in relation to environmental management and land-use policy, entrepreneurship, business planning and management. Technologies that promote sound harvesting of sand and enhance the safety and economic value for those undertaking the activity are also key.