#Laikipia Forum Focus Newsletter: September Edition, 2022

(Posted 14th October 2022)

September Edition 2022



WATER

GRASSROOT VOICES KEY IN PROMOTING GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE

The Mount Kenya Ewaso Water partnership and Kenya Water and Sanitation Civil Society Network begin implementation of the Water Governance Support Programme II in the greater Laikipia region this week.

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EMU-SACCO’S CONTRIBUTION TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 

Emu Sacco empowers its members to have sustainable food production systems and practice resilient agricultural practices that increase production. T

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TOURISM

ENSURING HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY

The Governors’ Mugie House team recently sponsored a medical outreach clinic that was run in collaboration with our partners The Moyo Foundation and the Mugie Conservancy, with huge support from the Kenya Defence Forces medical team.

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RANGELANDS

WALK WILD

Experience Laikipia’s Hidden gem

ILMAMUSI Community Forest Association is in full gear preparing for the inaugural Walk Wild experience, slated to take place on the 19th of November this year
The event entails a 10 km walk inside the forest accompanied by ILMAMUSI ranges, and guests will experience walking in the wild and help to plant 1,000 ….. 

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT KEY TO ATTAINING SUSTAINABLE PROJECTS

Development projects go nowhere unless they are directed and led by communities and their representatives. We all talk about sustainability, and the only way to ensure ownership and responsibility for these community projects is through this engagement in their planning and budgeting.

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ENDING CATTLE RUSTLING IN EAST AFRICAResource competition, climate change and politics can be considered as the primary catalysts to the menace that is cattle rustling, not only in Kenya but in East Africa at large. In Laikipia for instance, these particular issues have taken center stage time and time again.

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WILDLIFE

ONTULILI PRIMATES PROTECTION CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL PRIMATES PROTECTION DAY This year’s International Primates Day celebration theme was Restoring Primates Habitat and Awareness Creation to Mitigate Human-Wildlife Conflicts and Climate Change.

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CONSERVATION EDUCATION

KENYA SHINES AT THE AFRICA CONSERVATION AWARDS

Through partnerships and embracing a collabrative approach to conservation, Kenya has shown its great potential in restoring and protecting mother nature and this recognitions from the African conservation awards is true testimony to this. 

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