MKEWP and FAO partnered through the Forum to help ILMAMUSI CFA organize with communities for the rehabilitation of 5 water projects – 3 boreholes and 2 intakes. The five projects were distributed around Mukogodo Forest in keeping with the decisions of the Mukogodo Water Committee that spearheaded the selection of priority projects. Each of the…
Baotree is MKEWPs newest partner. They work with for-profit and non-profit organizations to design and develop easier ways of collecting and managing information for decision-making and impact monitoring. One of the most challenging aspects of managing a WRUA is real-time information on water flows, illegal abstractions, water pollution and riparian degradation. Working with @Baotree, WRUA…
MKEWP is a paid member of KEWASNET and a recipient of KEWASNET funding support. https://kewasnet.co.ke Our most recent grant from KEWASNET will be used to canvass our partners to determine the scope and scale of the water and sanitation issues confronting our new County and National governments after August 2022 elections. The results of this…
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…