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Securing the long-term future of Kenya’s largest freshwater wetland

 

Key Facts

FUNDING SCHEME ICON
FUNDING SCHEME
Main Project
VALUE ICON
VALUE
£341,972
WHERE ICON
WHERE
Kenya

Summary

This project aims to secure globally important biodiversity and local livelihoods in Kenya’s Yala Delta. The project will do this through gazettement of an 8,404-ha Community Conservation Area, underpinned by an integrated management plan implemented by a trained multi-stakeholder management committee, within the framework of a Land Use Plan adopted as government policy. Livelihoods will be improved by strengthening producer cooperatives (for papyrus, vegetables, fish, tourism, honey and chicken), benefiting c250,000 people and ensuring continued provision of vital ecosystem services. Project lessons will be widely shared.
 
Status Completed
Reference 26-003
Round 25
Start 01/04/2019
End 31/03/2022

Project Leader

Lead Organisation

Project Partners
NEMA - National Environment Management Agency, Kenya, The Yala Ecosystem Site Support Group (YESSG), The Inter-Ministerial Technical Committee on Sustainable Management of Deltas in Kenya (IMTC), Kenya Wildlife Service, County Government of Siaya and Government of Busia County, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)


Regions
Sub-Saharan Africa

Biomes
WETLANDS, INLAND WATERS

Threats To Biodiversity
LAND USE CHANGE

Broad Approches
IN SITU, SUSTAINABLE USE, GENERAL MEASURES, POLICY

Specific Tools
CEPA, MONITORING, NBSAP

Countries
Kenya

Conventions
CBD

Documents:
Download: Final Report - 26-003 FR - 02/03/2023

Download: Half Year Report - 26-003 HYR3 - 14/01/2022

Download: Annual Report - 26-003 AR2 - 11/08/2021

Download: Half Year Report - 26-003 HYR2 - 03/02/2021

Download: Annual Report - 26-003 AR1 - 25/08/2020

Download: Half Year Report - 26-003 HYR1 - 25/08/2020

Download: Application Form - 26-003 App - 25/08/2020