
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 |
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Growing farm forests for sustainable carbon sequestration. |
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Introduces household level water harvesting and water
saving techniques. |
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Promotes locally adapted mitigation and adaptation solutions embedded in community ownership, and human capacity. |
Gender impact |
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Women become equal decision makers in food and nutrition to benefit the whole community. |
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Women’s workload is decreased by promoting sustainable
agriculture in the home. |
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Education and training give women confidence to become
leaders. |
Scalability / replicability |
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Climate-resilient livelihood methodologies provide locally
based solutions to alleviate famine. |
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Learning centre demonstrate local, innovative technologies and management practices that can be replicated. |
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Entire communities promote agroforestry and water
harvesting techniques, food security, leadership and good
governance. |