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Mt. Kenya Biodiversity Conservation & Climate Change mitigation project

ERMIS Africa is a locally registered NGO working with natural resources dependent communities, including indigenous peoples and local communities, to build their capacity for sustained environmental services and improved livelihood through community-based initiatives and actions. Our programmes include: (i) Participatory research and mapping of resources for conservation and development; (ii) Climate Change Education, Training and Public Awareness including REDD plus; (iii) development and capacity building on community-adapted ecosystem monitoring techniques and tools including forestry, water resources, biodiversity, and climate change mitigation gains.
Through this project ERMIS wish to provide a long-lasting approach to securing Mt Kenya ecosystems by strengthening these grassroots institutions to integrate biodiversity conservation and monitoring techniques and tools into participatory natural resources management plans. The key areas of focus include: forest management plans, river sub-catchment management plans, community wildlife conservation and management plans, and management of sustainable Nature Based Enterprises
The overall project goal is to strengthen biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation and improved community livelihood in Mt Kenya.
The specific objectives of the project include:
1. To facilitate full and effective participation of local communities including marginalized groups in biodiversity conservation and climate change related decision making and Implementation County and ecosystem levels within Mt Kenya Ecosystem.
2. To support grassroots NRM institutions to develop ecosystem planning and management tools with enhanced biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation approaches within Mt Kenya Ecosystem.
3. To develop the capacity of grassroots NRM institutions to implement biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and livelihood improvement projects based on informed guidelines and procedures from existing knowledge, experience and skills relevant to Mt Kenya Ecosystem.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

ERMIS Africa

Country:

Kenya

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

Phase 5

Grant Amount:

US$ 150,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 11,764.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 38,236.00

Project Number:

KEN/SGP/OP5/FSP/BD/12/021

Start Date:

12/2012

End Date:

11/2014

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

One of the problems that the project hopes to address is the low awareness on International Climate Change Mechanisms including the emerging REDD Policy through the creation of 5 County NRM Forums on biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and livelihood improvement.

Capacity - Building Component

One of the project's activities will be the capacity building of 22 CFA’s, 35 WRUA’s, Line ministries (KFS, KWS, WRMA, NEMA, NMK among others), County government (Nyeri, Meru, Tharaka-Nithi, Embu, and Kirinyaga) and development partners on biodiversity monitoring techniques, Climate Change Mechanism including REDD plus mechanism and Nature-based Enterprises (NBE).

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The main goal of the project is strengthening grassroots community organizations, integrating biodiversity conservation and monitoring techniques and tools into participatory natural resources management plans. Key areas of focus include forest management plans, river sub-catchment management plans, community wildlife conservation and management plans, and management of sustainable Nature Based Enterprises.

Gender Focus

The project will develop guidelines for ensuring gender inclusion, Indigenous Peoples and Youths, person with disabilities and other vulnerable groups within the various project management and implementation structures and in all project cycle management stages (design, planning, monitoring and evaluation). These will include: • Project Operational Guidelines: The project will develop project design, planning, implementation and monitoring guidelines with affirmative action that will ensure at no more 2/3 of any gender in any of the elected project management structures (CFA, WRUA’s, CBO’s, Country NRM Focal Points and Forums); • Project Communication and Disclosure: gender sensitive mobilization and sensitisation approaches of the project before commencement .e.g. using media such as local radio stations, churches and other house of worship, public meetings and forums etc • Project Approaches and Methodologies: The project will ensure use of gender sensitive facilitation and training materials and facilitators.

Notable Community Participation

The project will ensure full and effective involvement of the stakeholders in the affected communities through several guiding principles to be observed and practices in the design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. These include: Stakeholders Identification, Profiling and Mapping: The project will hold consultative meetings and forums to indentify, profile, screen and map all the relevant stakeholders based on pre-designed criteria. The guiding criteria will be guided by the existing legislative frameworks such as the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 to specific forest resources dependent communities, vulnerable groups including women, youths, person with disabilities, minority groups, and marginalized communities, among others. In addition, stakeholders from the government and private sectors including line ministries, investors, research institutions, conservation organizations among others will the identified, profiled and mapped. 2. Project Ownership: The project will utilize the existing community NRM governance structures and capacity build them on skills that ensure full and effective community consultation and participations that leads to broad support of the project by a broad spectrum of the community. 3. Project Design, Planning, Implementation and Monitoring Structures: The project will establish democratic structures to provide platforms and processes that enable full and effective participation of the CFA and WRUA and BMU members. The main structure and process that will ensure this will included: County NRM Forum, Country NRM Focal Point, Ecosystem Network and Ecosystem Focal Point.

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