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Holistic planned grazing for sustainable land and natural resources management

Naibunga Conservancy is seeking to increase the coverage by scaling up the program already in plae so as to cover the other five group ranches in the local area while also strengthening the program within the existing four group ranches.
Key outcomes of this program are improved community awareness of holistic management techniques, reduced environmental degradation, improved local ownership, improved relations and cooperation, improved income of pastoralists and more productive rangeland.
To create awareness on sustainable rangeland management practices
To enhance community participation, involvement governance and decision making natural resource management
To create and restore adequate pasture for both wildlife and livestock through enhancing land use plans and zonation that will promote multiple of the available land and increase the carrying capacity of the land
Enhancing good relationships between group ranches and private ranchers on pasture management.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Naibunga Conservancy Trust

Country:

Kenya

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP5-Y3 (Jul 13 - Jun 14)

Grant Amount:

US$ 30,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

Project Number:

KEN/SGP/OP5/FSP/LD/14/05

Start Date:

7/2014

End Date:

5/2015

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Gender Focus

Naibunga has ensured that amongst the grazing committees and holistic practice management women have a stake. The group ranch set limits the participation of women members as few women are registered as group ranch members. The Naibunga management has also ensured that women participate in decision making by ensuring that their leadership capacity is enhanced and that they also participate in natural resource management activities within the group ranches.

Notable Community Participation

The Naibunga Conservancy management structure is based and conceptualised from the group ranches leadership. Every group ranch conducts its annual general meeting to elect their group ranch committee who in turn elect trustees who lead Naibunga trust. The decision making process and authority still remains with the community. The community elects a management board to run the conservancy on behalf of the community and the board engaged a conservancy manager to implement the decision of the board. To enhance and sustain community support, the conservancy conducts conservation education to the community through quarterly board and community meetings. The meetings are conducted in group ranch(es) zones of the community and in the meetings the community are informed the progress of the conservancy, key achievement, major challenges and importance, benefit, objectives and goals of conservation. The community then set the conservation goal of the conservancy by making key informed decision. Other than that the community members also provide support through providing labour, financial and in kind.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

There will be financial contribution from sand harvesting group ranches as a contribution of their activities to the environmental management. Other group ranches will contribute from eco-tourism activates and other sources. This contribution will be earmarked to sustaining rangeland rehabilitation through animal impact as well as grazing and settlement plan implementation. Social and cultural sustainability will be ensured by blending traditional pasture management practices with modern proven scientific skills. The indigenous traditional knowledge and skills accumulated over years by the Maasai creates cannot function fully by themselves due to climatic changes and other issues such changed land laws, ownership structures and restricted mobility. The traditional skills work best when the communities are trained in new natural resource management practices. The project can be sustained beyond the funding time frame. The Key Community Own Resource Persons (CORPs) such as the conservancy manager, conservancy coordinator and community ToTs will be identified and involved in skills development, creating awareness and training. These individuals working together with key partners such as NRT, LWF, World Vision and private ranchers will build more capacity within the community by training more ToTs in the group ranch as well as among the group ranch committees and grazing committees. Through other conservancy efforts, the conservancy will invest in building the governance structures and capacity of the group ranches to ensure sustainable management of land Environmental sustainability can be ensured through strong grazing committees that are well trained in environmental protection and land use. The group will put by laws in place so that the livestock capacity and penalties for environmental damage can be enforced. The conservancy will be conducting education to create environmental awareness. The school will set up an environment club responsible in setting up tree nursery and planting trees. The project will be implemented in mind the impact of the project to the environment and try to minimize as much as possible. During construction all safety measures will be taken care and the action of clearing big bush trees will be avoided as much as possible.

Capacity - Building Component

These individuals working together with key partners such as NRT, LWF, World Vision and private ranchers will build more capacity within the community by training more ToTs in the group ranch as well as among the group ranch committees and grazing committees. Through other conservancy efforts, the conservancy will invest in building the governance structures and capacity of the group ranches to ensure sustainable management of land

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