Ensuring legacy and conservation impact within Kenya’s biodiversity monitoring network
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Post-Project
VALUE £49,144
WHERE Kenya
Summary
A functioning national monitoring system is demonstrably assisting Kenyan conservation by informing and inspiring sound and long term conservation actions
Environment Legislation and Policy Working Group - ELPWIG, IBA National Liaison Committee, NEMA - National Environment Management Agency, Kenya, Forest Department, Kenya, National Museums of Kenya - NMK, Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), Nature Kenya
1. Greater institutionalisation of monitoring within managing agencies creates extra capacity and awareness within each agency
2. A standard training module for people new to the network is delivered through the key agencies
3. Project databases ensure more efficient and effective analysis and use of monitoring data to a common standard across the Kenyan network
4. Site Support Groups’ ability to integrate monitoring programmes into their core work is enhanced
5. An increased number of management plans are making active use of monitoring data, with a particular focus on wetlands
6. Regional and national dissemination carried out to promote use of data from the programme and encourage its replication elsewhere
