The project is being implemented by Women in Water and Natural Resources Conservation (WWANC) and funded by Terra Fund for AFRI00 which is a consortium of World Resources Institute (WRI), One Tree Planted (OTP), Realize Impact and BARKA
It is focusing majorly on MAU Complex-Narok South, CHEBITET –BLOCK 30,31,32,33 covering 400 hectares of natural forest and 15 hectares of farmland.
Key stakeholders involved in the project are; the County Government of Narok, Kenya Forest Service (KFS), Kenya Water Towers Authority, Water Resources Authority (WRA), Community Forest Associations (CFAs) Youth Groups, Women Groups among others.
The project goal is enhancing landscape restoration through tree growing in natural forests and farmlands and increasing climate adaptive capacity of grassroots women and communities living around the Mau Forest Complex the largest water tower in Kenya. The project heightens food security and soil conservation as well as promoting pastoral ecosystem-based adaptation as well as enhancing capacity building and knowledge development for grassroots women on conservation practices and replanting threatened species that are quickly being depleted in the forest.
Project Impacts:
directly/indirectly through sale of tree seedlings & casual employment
ecosystem
A women led organization in Kenya working across the counties of Kenya in changing the lives of women. WWANC was started in 2011 to bring change in the society by empowering women socially, economically and politically while mitigating effects of climate change.
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