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Grassroots women-led climate information learning centre

Rural Women Network

Honoree

Representative Name: Pauline Kariuki

Year: 2022

Country:

Kenya

Topics:

BiodiversityBusinessCapacity-BuildingCommunity EducationEntrepreneurshipHealthy EcosystemsSustainable Livelihoods

Region:

Anglophone Africa

Description of the project:


In the arid rangelands of Kajiado County, Kenya, the Rural Women Network supports locally led initiatives with agro-pastoral communities to conduct climate adaptive agriculture for resilient livelihoods. A climate information learning centre was established after consulting 40 local group leaders. Over 600 Maasai women organized in self-help groups have been trained via farmer-field-school (FFS) on climate adaptive crop agriculture, poultry breeding and bee-farming, improving the livelihoods of 2,805 community members. This project launched a trainer-of-farmers programme, benefitting 24 trainers. The locally led learning centre is operating 11 raised bed nurseries, 7 conical and 10 sunken bed gardens.

Climate impact

  • Growing farm forests for sustainable carbon sequestration.
  • Introduces household level water harvesting and water
    saving techniques.
  • Promotes locally adapted mitigation and adaptation solutions embedded in community ownership, and human capacity.

Gender impact

  • Women become equal decision makers in food and nutrition to benefit the whole community.
  • Women’s workload is decreased by promoting sustainable
    agriculture in the home.
  • Education and training give women confidence to become
    leaders.

Scalability / replicability

  • Climate-resilient livelihood methodologies provide locally
    based solutions to alleviate famine.
  • Learning centre demonstrate local, innovative technologies and management practices that can be replicated.
  • Entire communities promote agroforestry and water
    harvesting techniques, food security, leadership and good
    governance.
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