We have essential partnerships to make this model of water resources management work. At our core is the partnership with the WRUA (the Water Resources User Group. These groups are the essence of community based natural resources management. Each WRUA is to be led by a Board chosen locally. Each Board is expected to direct…
The Partnership is 5-years old, and has received the following funding to support its partners in the Upper Ewaso Ng’iro Basin: KSH 5,021,000: The Laikipia Forum – secretariat services, administrative and fundraising support, office space, accounting and reporting, audits, etc. KSH 9,506,250: FAO – support for ILMAMUSI and the Mukogodo landscape for the rehabilitation…
Community members from Lekurruki/Sieku, Il Ngwesi, Makurian, and Kuri Kuri have a reason to smile after the successful rehabilitation of 5 water projects within the Mukogodo landscape. The water point rehabilitation is great news for community members and for their livestock, especially at a time when Laikipia is experiencing low rainfall. Wildlife troughs have also…
Every year during the dry season, Elijah and his wife would sit at home without much to do and unable to plant because, like most rural Kenyans, they needed rain to grow food for their family. Elijah’s family’s food availability for the entire year depended on one harvest grown during the rainy season on a…
Kenya’s second largest county, Marsabit County, has over 200,000 people bearing the brunt of an acute food and water shortage. Dried up water lagas and barren agricultural fields are now dominating Marsabit County. Women are forced to walk for several kilometers in search of water. The little agricultural land is covered in dust, with carcasses…
Likii sub-catchment continues to lose vegetation cover at an alarming rate through human activities such as charcoal burning and cutting down of trees within the riparian area to pave way for cultivation. The impacts of these human activities include severe soil erosion and degradation of the water quality . To address this situation, various intervention…
Imagine a situation where you have two seasons of depressed rains, desert locusts ravaging farmlands and people fighting over the few resources available. That is the making of a disaster. Alas, this is the reality farmers have been facing in many counties in the Country. At the beginning of September last year, the Kenya declared a…
Food and Agriculture Organization National Project Coordinator Mr. Meshack Muga, strongly believes that there needs to be solid coordination between FAO Project partners if implementation of projects is to be executed efficiently and successfully. His conviction was shared with a delegation of FAO partners in a review meeting held in Laikipia County on the 10th…
Community leaders from four community lands surrounding Mukogodo in Laikipia North have selected to rehabilitate 6 water projects within their areas. The community lands include Chulu Mai (formerly) Kurikuri, Lekuruki, Maiyanat (formerly Makurian), and Il Ngwesi will obtain the support for these rehabilitation projects through Laikipia Wildlife Forum and MKEWP, through the financial support of…
Timau WRUA launched their recently completed office on January 20, 2022. The launch was officiated by the Laikipia County Water Resources Authority, Regional Manager, Mr. Peter Ngubu. Also in attendance were Buuri West Member of Parliament, Mr. Rendikiri, the Deputy County Commissioner, the Mount Kenya Ewaso Water Partnership Coordinator, Mr. Stanley Kirimi, the WRUA Forum…