Case Studies UNDP: KIJABE ENVIRONMENT VOLUNTEERS, Kenya

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Equator Initiative Case StudiesLocal sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

Kenya

KIJABE ENVIRONMENTVOLUNTEERS (KENVO)

Empowered live

Resilient nation


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UNDP EQUATOR INITIATIVE CASE STUDY SERIES

Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that wo

or people and or nature. Few publications or case studies tell the ull story o how such initiatives evolve, the breadth

their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practition

themselves guiding the narrative.

To mark its 10-year anniversary, the Equator Initiative aims to ll this gap. The ollowing case study is one in a growing ser

that details the work o Equator Prize winners vetted and peer-reviewed best practices in community-based environmenconservation and sustainable livelihoods. These cases are intended to inspire the policy dialogue needed to take local succ

to scale, to improve the global knowledge base on local environment and development solutions, and to serve as models

replication. Case studies are best viewed and understood with reerence to The Power o Local Action: Lessons rom 10 Years

the Equator Prize, a compendium o lessons learned and policy guidance that draws rom the case material.

Click on the map to visit the Equator Initiatives searchable case study database.

EditorsEditor-in-Chie: Joseph CorcoranManaging Editor: Oliver HughesContributing Editors: Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Erin Lewis, Whitney Wilding

Contributing WritersEdayatu Abieodun Lamptey, Erin Atwell, Toni Blackman, Jonathan Clay, Joseph Corcoran, Larissa Currado, Sarah Gordon, Oliver Hughe

Wen-Juan Jiang, Sonal Kanabar, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Rachael Lader, Patrick Lee, Erin Lewis, Jona Liebl, Mengning Ma,

Mary McGraw, Gabriele Orlandi, Juliana Quaresma, Peter Schecter, Martin Sommerschuh, Whitney Wilding, Luna Wu

DesignOliver Hughes, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Amy Korngiebel, Kimberly Koserowski, Erin Lewis, John Mulqueen, Lorena de la Pa

Brandon Payne, Mariajos Satizbal G.

AcknowledgementsThe Equator Initiative acknowledges with gratitude the Kijabe Environment Volunteers (KENVO), and in particular the guidance a

inputs o David Kuria and Leah Mwangi. All photo credits courtesy o KENVO. Maps courtesy o CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia.

Suggested CitationUnited Nations Development Programme. 2012. Kijabe Environment Volunteers (KENVO), Kenya. Equator Initiative Case Study Series. N

York, NY.
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PROJECT SUMMARYKijabe Environment Volunteers (KENVO) has worked withrural communities on the Kikuyu Escarpment in Kenyasince 1996, with a primary ocus on orest conservationand reorestation in response to human pressures on theescarpments orests. The organization has evolved beyondthis initial ocus, however, into a exible delivery mechanismor donor-unded interventions and a powerul vehicle orholistic local development.

The current range o activities includes selling aordableuel-efcient stoves to poor arming households; distributing

mosquito nets to combat increased incidence o malaria inescarpment communities; encouraging bee-keeping andsh-arming as alternative livelihood activities or armers;acilitating conict resolution over water access betweenlocal tribes; a comprehensive environmental educationprogram; and developing ecotourism through the creationo an eco-lodge in partnership with a local Maasai tribe.

KEY FACTS

EQUATOR PRIZE WINNER: 2008

FOUNDED: 1996

LOCATION: Kimende, Kenya

BENEFICIARIES: Rural communities of Kijabe

BIODIVERSITY: Kereita Forest

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KIJABE ENVIRONMENT VOLUNTEERS(KENVO)Kenya

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Background and Context 4

Key Activities and Innovations 6

Biodiversity Impacts 8

Socioeconomic Impacts 8

Policy Impacts 9

Sustainability 10

Replication 10

Partners 11


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With the objective o conserving Kenyas natural habitats and

iodiversity, Kijabe Environment Volunteers (KENVO) provides

ocal communities with the inormation, education, and resources

hey need to advance environmentally-riendly businesses. KENVO

as been active in the Kijabe area o the southern slopes o the

Aberdares since 1996, working to combat the degradation o orests

n the Kikuyu Escarpment. These are home to indigenous tree

pecies rom the Croton, Olea, and Prunus Aricana amilies, as well as

arieties o Blue Gum. The orests are also habitats or many species

bird, Sykes and Black and White Colubus Monkeys, and elephants.

he escarpment itsel overlooks the Rit Valley oor, approximately

,500 metres above sea level at its highest point, along the course o

he Nairobi-Naivasha Highway.

he most common source o income is rom small-scale agriculture.

Households grow vegetables such as carrots and potatoes, and

ypically harvest one grain such as maize per year. KENVOs main

fce, situated adjacent to Kereita Forest, is at around 2,400m above

ea level; tea is grown at around 2,000m, and coee at 1,500m.

Much o KENVOs work has ocused on eco-agricultural initiatives,

ncouraging conservation practices that complement local

ommunities arming livelihood activities.

Reorestation and diversiying livelihoods

he main ocus o KENVOs work is orest rehabilitation. A group ooung activists with university educations in conservation initially

nited in 1996 to address the problem o deorestation in Kereita

orest, an indigenous tree species block that still serves as the

entral conservation area o KENVOs work. Pressure on the orest

esulted rom the local communities practices o elling or timber

nd charcoal burning, as well as grazing their herds within the

orested area. The education o local villages on the importance o

onservation became the main aim o KENVOs work, and led to the

road portolio o alternative environmentally-riendly livelihoods

hey support today.

Agroorestry has ormed a large part o this, enabled by the U

Nations Environment Programmes (UNEP) sponsorship

Responsible Consumer Behaviour paper compensation scheme

has supported the creation o a tree nursery at Kereita, with a se

unded by Carbacid Mining Company, and a third in the groun

a local primary school in the village o Matathia, where KENVO w

in environmental education. Between them, these three nurs

produce almost 100,000 seedlings each year.

Other signicant areas o work include youth empowerment, thro

mentoring local groups o young people and involvement inCanada World Youth international exchange program. Comm

outreach is continued through workshops, and KENVOs mon

bird-watching monitoring exercise in Kereita Forest, mostly

Kikuyu village populations along the escarpment. Giving tra

and nancial support to grassroots community organisation

livelihood improvement projects such as bee-keeping and

arming has helped to provide alternative sources o income or

people. Finally, an ecotourism campsite is being developed

southern portion o the escarpment with the indigenous Il Para

Maasai tribe.

Background and Context


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Organizational structure

KENVO membership remains open to any community members

who wish to volunteer their time to combat orest degradation in

nd around the Kikuyu Escarpment orests. Currently, the group has

more than 100 members in total, including both ull-time and afliate

roup members. The organization is led by an elected committee o

even gures, including two representatives rom KENVO member

roups, that oversees the implementation o decisions made bymembers and oversees long-term programs.

KENVO also has a 12-person secretariat that oversees the day-to

running o the organization, based at the KENVO Resource Ce

near the town o Kimende, which also houses a library and lec

hall. The Centre itsel was built with government unding in 2

the recently-established district government ofces are with

quarter o a mile. Kenya Forest Service (KFS) also has ofces in

region, and has been a close partner o KENVO since its ounda

Representatives rom KFS, Nature Kenya, a Kenya Forests Wor

Group, Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), and UNEP oradvisory committee that provides expert advice to the organizat

project implementation teams.


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Key Activities and Innovations

ree planting or orest rehabilitation orms the main part o KENVOs

work, taking place at three tree nurseries. The schemes are unded

by dierent sources, and involve KENVO volunteers, community

participants, school children, and Kenya Forest Service.

Kereita Forest tree nursery

he rst o these programs, based at KENVOs Resource Centre

djacent to Kereita Forest, began in 2000, when a Nairobi-based

UNEP department undertook an Early Warning Assessment to

alculate their paper usage. Through a Responsible Consumer

ehaviour paper compensation scheme they pledged that, or each

eam o paper used, they would give KENVO the unds calculatedo grow one indigenous seedling to planting height. The division

nitially contributed around 2,000 seedlings per year; currently

here are eight divisions taking part, contributing at least 16,000

eedlings. With other private companies involved in compensating

or trees they have harvested or medicinal and cosmetic research,

he Kereita nursery plants around 30,000 seedlings annually.

hese are mostly o one species, Croton, which has bio-diesel

ses. It is also non-palatable or livestock, which is an important

onsideration: local communities are allowed to graze their livestock

n the orest in return or a tax, as long as they ollow their herds. In

practice they do not, so many seedling trees are destroyed beore

hey can grow. Another non-palatable, indigenous species planteds rom the olive, or Olea, amily. Greveria, or Silky Oak, is an exotic,

ast-growing species, and is also planted at Kereita or commercial

ses. These seedlings are sold to households at KSh5 (around USD

.06, below the market price o KSh10) or use in agroorestry by

ouseholds. This species has proven uses as animal odder, rewood,

nd timber.

he Kenya Forest Service (KFS) has divided Kereita Forest into two

blocks: 4,700 hectares are reserved or indigenous trees, which

re protected against elling by law, while 2,600 hectares are or

commercial use. This includes cyprus, pine, and blue gum trees

nursery itsel is divided into three sections, or use by KFS, KEN

and communities. The communities are given initial capita

KENVO, in the orm o seeds and pods, and they develop their

cooperative nurseries, taking cuttings rom the mother trees in

orest, beore selling the seedlings at planting height to KE

Local schools also undraise or the cost o seedlings and volun

at the nursery. Through these schemes, KENVO has been succe

in creating incentives or reducing local practices o deoresta

and charcoal burning, which had put huge pressures on the or

Carbacid tree nursery

The second nursery at Carbacid was begun in 2004, and is prim

unded by Carbacid mining company, which mines carbon dioxi

the area, through their Greening Kereita Forest project. The nu

is managed wholly by KENVO. Members o the local comm

volunteer to help ll potting bags or the seedlings, and are pa

an inormal basis. Carbacid provides a minimum o 50,000 seed

annually, o which 30-40,000 are indigenous. Again, these are mCroton and Olea, as well as Greveria, and are planted within

surrounding orest. At times when unding has not been prov

by Carbacid, KENVO has unded the project independently.

Matathia tree nursery

KENVO has encouraged environmental education in Lari

Matathia Districts, through supporting the development o sch

Environment Clubs. At Matathia Primary School, or insta

students have participated in organised clean-ups, eld trips,

watching programs, education about indigenous and exotic

species, and KENVOs annual World Environment Day activ

Students have also learned about water and soil conservatio

well as the importance o waste management, through recy

programs. The schools Environment Club, ounded in 2003

cultivated a tree nursery within the school compound,


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KENVO donated Greveria seeds. This nursery, part-managed by a

KENVO representative, now includes Croton, Olea, Jatropha, variouscacia types and Dobae. These seedlings have been used or the

ehabilitation o the Kikuyu Escarpment: 30,000 have been planted

ince August 2009, with a target o 100,000, which would include ten

ierent tree species. KENVO has also enabled the development o

school support network or the replication o this success within

eighbouring districts, through KEFIBA (Kikuyu Escarpment Forest

mportant Bird Areas).

Alternative livelihoods

Apiculture has been an eco-riendly livelihood activity supported

y KENVO, although the socioeconomic returns in terms o income

eneration are still being realized. This began in 2005 with unding

rom the EUs Biodiversity Conservation Programme (BCP). Since

hen, 150 beehives have been distributed to 10 local youth and

womens groups, usually comprising o 15 members each. KENVO

as also given training and donated protective harvesting gear to

he groups, while on their part, the group members are expected to

reate the hives area, and ensure its security. The ten groups meetor joint discussions each month. One o these examples, Esibonia

Youth Group, began their work in June 2009, and expect to harvest

heir rst batch o honey by October 2010. Ater using a portion o

he honey or their own consumption, the group intends to market

nd sell the product. Another group has been able to expand their

ctivities to manage 40 hives.

ish-arming is another area in which KENVO has given support

o local groups through access to micro-loans. Kaharlu Womens

Group, a womens agricultural co-operative that has worked on

Kikuyu Escarpment since 1985, was given unding by KENVO to dig

ut a sh pond. KENVO then supplied the plastic lining and 400

lapia sh. The women harvested 900 specimens in July 2010, andave been assisted in marketing them by KENVO. Mariculture and

piculture are being encouraged in order to urther reduce pressure

n the escarpment orests or livelihoods.

Finally, KENVO has initiated an ecotourism project in collabora

with the indigenous Il Parakwo Maasai people, rom the sout

slopes o the escarpment. The construction o lodges at Osotua Ca

Kanan, began in 2007 ater participatory work with tribal lea

Maasai representatives had originally been engaged by KE

in beginning tree nurseries, to compensate or the eects o

livestock grazing and charcoal burning on the escarpment or

Training was also given on orest monitoring and policing. The

behind developing an eco-lodge was to promote the rehabilitao these orests and to generate revenue or local education proj

This was given impetus ater site visits to successul example

Maasai community-based conservation and tourism projects,

as Il Ngwesi Group Ranch in Laikipia District. The Il Parakwo Ma

and KENVO submitted a joint proposal or unding rom IUCN,

urther unding contributed by USAIDs PACT Kenya, and a g

rom the UNDP-implemented Global Environment Facility (

Small Grants Programme.

The lodge and campsite will allow visitors to interact with

Maasai people, view perormances o cultural dances and tradit

and to purchase artisanal handicrats made by local people.

construction work is being undertaken alongside a tree-plan

scheme in the surrounding area, with 2,500 trees planted by

2010. Once open, the proceeds will be reinvested in developin

tree nursery, expanding the local primary school to eight classro

and to und a water distribution project. In the course o its w

in the area, KENVO has helped to mediate a conict between

Maasai pastoralists and the Kikuyu agrarians rom the higher sl

over access to water sources. As well as unding the project, IUCN

also provided training or the Maasai as guides to the areas wil

while KENVO is marketing the eco-lodge via a website. Currentl

management team consists o seven representatives rom KE

and seven rom the Maasai people, and meets monthly to dis

progress. The revenues rom the project will help to und KENconservation activities, and will greatly contribute to its long-

nancial sustainability.


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Impacts

BIODIVERSITY IMPACTS

here have been measurable changes in the areas o high biodiversity

argeted by KENVOs work, especially in Kereita Forest. Education o

he local community has successully changed attitudes towards use

the orest, and has reduced practices such as charcoal burning. This

as been complemented by the extensive tree-planting schemes at

Kereita and Matathia, as well as around the new ecotourism lodge.

inally, agroorestry and the promotion o various eco-riendly

usinesses have reduced communities dependence on the orest

or their livelihoods.

Measuring improvements in conservation

KENVO has been able to observe these positive impacts through

egular community participation in monitoring o birds, wildlie

nd vegetation. Annual monitoring is conducted every August in

pecied transects o land measuring up to one kilometre in length.

Within these transects are sample plots in which the vegetation is

monitored. This includes measuring the extent o canopy cover, the

iameter o tree seedlings, and looking or human disturbances

within the area. One notable improvement in the regenerated orest

reas has been signicantly higher numbers o Prunus Aricanus,

r Red Stinkwood, which has medicinal properties and is highly

mportant to the indigenous people o the Kikuyu Escarpment.

ndigenous croton and olea tree species have also been chosen orheir utility or local communities, as well as being non-palatable.

irds are also counted annually within these sample plots, as

well as in monthly birding exercises. Kereita Forest is home to at

east 120 bird species, including hawks, Turacos, shrikes, cuckoos,

weavers, and eagles. The orest also supports a population o the

ndangered Abbotts starling, leading to the orest being classied

s an Important Bird Area (IBA) by Bird Lie International, through

Nature Kenya. One observed trend within the regenerated portion

o Kereita Forest has been the return o Green-Headed Sun

and Red-Chested Sparrowhawks rom the interior o the orest

edge, indicative o the reduction in human activities within the

area. Other wildlie species include both Sykes Monkey and B

and White Colubus, while the higher orest areas are also hom

elephants. This has led to some human-wildlie conicts, espec

when elephants have encroached on household arm plot

KENVO worked locally with Kenya Wildlie Service in erecting pa

an electric ence around the Aberdares region.

As well as being an important area or orests and wildlie

escarpment area orms part o the south-eastern Aberdares

which is an important water catchment area within Kenya. Mothe water used in Nairobi, or instance, comes rom the Aber

region. In light o this, growing and planting o eucalyptus

or commercial reasons was stopped, due to their harmul e

on water sources and soil ertility. The importance o the regio

local and national ecosystem services is reected in the involvem

o other Kenyan stakeholders. Much o KENVOs conservation w

has been conducted in partnership with the local branches o

Kenya Forest Service and Kenya Wildlie Service, while data

KENVOs monitoring exercises are sent to the National Museum

Kenya or analysis.

SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS

The chie socioeconomic benets resulting rom KENVOs work

be seen in long-term income generation rom the eco-busine

they have promoted. Over time, apiculture and mariculture activ

are expected to provide a reliable source o revenue or the gr

involved. Similarly, the ecotourism project will provide a sourc

income or the local Maasai, who plan to reinvest the prots

expanding their secondary school to eight classrooms. The

nurseries have given amilies access to timber and encoura

agroorestry, thereby enhancing their livelihood prospects.


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Delivering health and education benets

n addition to these longer-term benets, however, KENVO has also

ponsored various inrastructure and health projects. Since 2005,

he group has been involved in selling uel-efcient stoves to local

communities, reducing their need or uel wood and improving

health conditions in their homes. This has used the successul

iko Rocket ceramic stove model, which has been sold to 300

households. Training was given to young people by experts, whohen acted as pioneers in training others on how to install and use

he stoves. The associated health and social benets are especially

argeted or women, who are generally the chie rewood-gatherers

n households.

Matathia Primary School has benetted rom two water tanks

donated by KENVO to serve their tree nurseries. Access to water is a

pressing concern or many o the communities on the escarpment,

and has been a priority or KENVO in several areas. At the site o

heir new eco-lodge, Osotua Camp, they have helped to mediate

a dispute between the uphill Kikuyu agrarians and the downhill

Maasai pastoralists over the use o water or agriculture and livestock

espectively. By installing water tanks and pipes, KENVO has helpedo resolve the problem, and ensure water security or the two tribes.

Finally, KENVO has targeted the problem o increased incidence

o malaria in the communities along the escarpment. The rate o

malarial inections has been increasing in recent years, which has

been linked to the warming temperatures, and subsequent higher

numbers o mosquitoes. Early in 2010, as part o a joint project with

civil society organisations rom Manitoba, Canada, 500 mosquito

nets were distributed to local health centres at Lari, Kagwe, and

Kereita, and to other dispensaries. The scheme was an example

o community-based measures to mitigate the eects o climate

change, and was made possible through KENVOs participation in

nternational youth exchanges.

POLICY IMPACTS

KENVOs inuence on policy changes has been growing steadily

ince their inception. Although this was initially limited, they have

been able to have an impact through membership o national

bodies such as Kenya Wildlie Service (KWS), Kenya Forests Service

KFS), a Kenya Forests Working Group, and Nature Kenya. They also

it on the District Environment Committee, and benet rom their

close proximity to the local government headquarters.

ncreasingly, Kenyan policies on environmental conservation areaking into account the interests o communities. For instance, the

Forestry Act o 2005 enabled the creation o Community Forest

Associations (CFAs), building on the introduction o Participatory

Forest Management (PFM) approaches in areas o Kenya. These

CFAs act as umbrella organisations or all o the various stakeholder

orest user groups, and give communities a mandate to make their

own decisions on conservation and the sustainable use o their

natural resources. Five CFAs have been ormed in ve orest blocks

n the district, with a urther ve being planned or the remaining

blocks in the larger escarpment orest. This participatory approach

has had some notable benets: an example is when KFS plan

to grant concessions or ecotourism ventures in some portio

the Kikuyu Escarpment. KENVO mobilised to collect opinions

local communities and communicated these to KFS; as a result

orest service has given rst priority to communities application

ecotourism concessions. Participatory orest management has

allowed or the establishment o a number o usage rights withi

orest or local communities.

Collection o medicinal herbs

Harvesting o honey

Fuel wood collection

Grass and odder harvesting

Grazing

Ecotourism and recreational activities

Plantation establishment through the KFS Plantation

Establishment and Livelihood Improvement Scheme (PELIS)

Silviculture activities

Seedling production and seed collection

Butterfy, sh, and mushroom arming Collection o ruits, berries and vegetables

Water abstraction

Quarrying, laterite (murram) and ballast collection

Extraction o woodcrat materials

Harvesting o timber

Development o community-based timber and

non-timber industries

While these developments represent signicant prog

in conservation policy, obstacles remain to a model o

participatory resource management. One example is the st

eect o government bureaucracy, which has limited the inu

KENVO can have on regional and national policy-making decisi

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Fig. 1: Some user rights for Kikuyu Escarpment communiti


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Sustainability and Replication

SUSTAINABILITYo date, KENVO has been able to sustain its work through

he engagement o local community members, partnerships

with regional and national NGOs and government ofces, and

unding support rom international organisations. Its longer term

ustainability remains a concern, however; the principal means

hrough which KENVO hopes to ensure this is the development o

cotourism at Osotua Camp.

Volunteer support has been crucial or the maintenance o KENVOs

ree nurseries, and this has requently involved local youth, schools,

nd womens groups. This has been encouraged by the benetsered by agroorestry, which have incentivised growing and

lanting tree seedlings. Meanwhile, exotic, ast-growing tree species

ave also been sold or prot, which has helped to und part o

KENVOs work. Private unding has been crucial however: UNEP and

Carbacid Mining Company each und one o KENVOs tree nurseries.

arge-scale community development projects such as apiculture,

mariculture, and ecotourism, or donating bed nets or water tanks,

ave been enabled through unding and partnerships with the

Kenyan government and non-governmental sources. The eco-lodge

nd campsite at Osotua, or instance, has been supported by USAID

hrough PACT Kenya, the GEF Small Grants Programme, and IUCN,

who assisted in the initial marketing eorts.

KENVOs relationship with Nature Kenya has been developed

hrough their association with BirdLie International, ater Kereita

orest was designated as an Important Bird Area (IBA). A new orest

ehabilitation scheme called Tupande Pamoja has been planned by

KENVO, which will involve corporate sponsors buying tree seedlings

rom local communities to replant orests.

KENVO has worked with Kenya Forest Service (KFS) on pr

implementation committees in the Kereita Forest area, and

has also been instrumental in conducting orest surveys

monitoring. Kenya Wildlie Service (KWS) collaborated with KE

to construct a wildlie ence within the Aberdares region to pre

wildlie incursions. Finally, the Ministry o Agriculture has he

to implement sh-arming projects, as well as bee-keeping

tree nurseries, targeting ood security issues. These relations

have been undamental to the groups sustained impact, as

their participation in the District Environment Committee, Di

Development Committee, District Security Committee, and Di

Education Stakeholders Forum.

Long-term nancial stability is an important challenge or KE

however, and this will rely on revenues generated by

ecotourism initiative. This would provide a reliable source o un

or their development projects, and would allow them to scal

their successes.

REPLICATION

KENVO has been able to act as an inuential model or o

conservation through its role as a Site Support Group (SSG)

Nature Kenya and BirdLie International. It has hosted other gr

rom Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in Kikuyu, Kakamega, and Lai

who have learned rom KENVOs initiatives. Together these grorm a national network or bird conservation, and meet at an an

orum hosted by Nature Kenya.

Within the Kikuyu Escarpment, there are other projects base

KENVOs model. Through their extensive mentoring work with y

groups, they have been able to train pioneers who implemen

lessons learned and best practices in their own communitie

particular, many o these groups similarly ocus on orest monito


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PARTNERS

Nature Kenya

Kenya Forests Working Group

Ecotourism Kenya

Carbacid Mining Company

IUCN (International Conservation Union)

PACT Kenya (through USAID)

UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme: Small Grant Recipient

2009-2011

Kenya Wildlie Service

Kenya Forest Service

United Nations Environment Programme

Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI)


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FURTHER REFERENCE

KENVO website: kenvokenya.com

KENVO PhotoStory (Vimeo) vimeo.com/15750443 (English) vimeo.com/15750525 (Swahili)

KENVO: Capturing New Market Opportunities or Farmers: HabitatSeven(Vimeo) vimeo.com/7351740

Video on KENVO (Vimeo) vimeo.com/5013276

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