Grassroots women-led climate information learning centre
Rural Women Network
Honoree
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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