📋 Tender Overview
Partners: SAKU Community Forestry Association
Location: Mt Marsabit, Kenya
Priority Theme: Ecosystem-based approaches
Timeline: January 2024 - February 2027
Vision
To establish a transformed landscape in Mt Marsabit, where indigenous communities actively engage in the management of the forest ecosystem. To strengthen project participants’ resilience to climate change, to enhance livelihoods, and create a renewed sense of ownership over the environment.
Summary
The project will be implemented in and around the Mt Marsabit dryland forest ecosystem, often referred to as a green island in the surrounding arid and semi-arid landscape. The landscape is a dry season grazing area for communities and is critical for the long term resilience of pastoralists. Land degradation in the area is increasing the vulnerability of local communities to drought and flooding, and is impacting the adaptive capacity of local ecosystems.
The project aims to enhance the inclusion and meaningful participation of indigenous community members in the planning, management and monitoring of the Mt Marsabit forest. It will enable the validation and signing of a participatory forestry management plan, support communities to implement locally adapted restoration techniques, and equip local herders with the technical skills and technology to enable them to monitor restoration progress.
