Kenya
Food - Agriculture

PACCAP – Pastoralists Adaptive Capacity to Climate Actions

This project leaded by "PICO - Pastoralists Integrated Concerns Organization" aims to build capacity of pastoralist communities in Kajiado County, Kenya, for sustainable climate resilient sources of livelihood.

An initiative of PICO - Pastoralists Integrated Concerns Organization

Overview of the project

PACCAP runs on a basis of a theory of change that believes in initiating change from the grassroots/indigenous people who influence policy making at the national and county level. This involves integration of maasai traditional approaches of environmental conservation and the conventional methods provided by the country’s (Kenya) framework on environmental conservation. Indigenous input are consolidated at the grassroots and escalated for their involvement in policy making at both the national and county level. This project also focuses on regeneration of the range lands – through reafforestation of indigenous trees which are climate resilient .

Objective

Build capacity of pastoralist communities in Kajiado County, Kenya, for sustainable climate resilient sources of livelihood

Level of progress

Ongoing research

Project timeline

1/1/2019

About the
organisation

PICO - Pastoralists Integrated Concerns Organization

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Jeremiah Kutanya
Executive Director
jkutanya@gmail.com
254718922315

Build the capacity of pastoralist communities of Kajiado County, Kenya to adapt to the climate changes that have over time threatened their source of livelihood and seek alternative sustainable sources of livelihood.