Kakamega Tropical Rainforest Rehabilitation Project
The Kakamega Tropical Rainforest Rehabilitation Project and Community-led tree planting initiative in Kakamega forest block and Nandi Forest to mitigate climate change and promote biodiversity conservation Initiative is a collaborative effort between Women in Water and Natural Resources Conservation (WWANC), the International Tree Foundation (ITF), Kenya Forest Service (KFS), Community Forest Association, and local communities in the catchments of Kakamega Tropical Rainforest. This initiative aims to restore degraded forest areas, enhance biodiversity, and improve the livelihoods of adjacent communities through a series of targeted activities.
Project Activities
- Rehabilitation of degraded forest lands and ecosystem
- Community empowerment especially women through
- Capacity building on nature based solutions and alternative entrepreneurship opportunities in environmental conservation
- Community nursery establishment for conservation and commercialization
- Employment opportunities for catchment communities
- Livelihood improvement
- Issuance of energy saving cook stoves for improve on health and reduce consumption of wood based fuel while improving on forest health and regeneration.
- Issuance of agroforestry trees in the Agroforestry model for
- Improved soil qualities
- Source of nutrition
- Source of fuel
- Source of income.
These measures are put in place to impact both communities and forests. The goal is to provide alternatives to forest resources and give communities the ability to acquire resources from elsewhere other than the forest. By doing this the community will either have the resources at home or make the finances needed to purchase the needed resources.
There will be reduced pressure in forests hence contributing to a normal and healthy forest ecosystems.
