This is a three year project implemented by LPCT, IPSIA, IMPACT and County Government of Laikipia and aims at strengthening the
participation of women and the most vulnerable groups in land management thanks to the acquisition of
technical skills and knowledge, leadership and use of financial tools and through an increase in community
investments for sustainable land management and adaptation to climate change.

The intervention operates in Laikipia North, where the 13 Community Lands of the County
are located, affecting a total of 2900 direct beneficiaries, of which 60% are women. It responds to the
needs of strengthening the civil role of women, implementing local climate change management policies
and guiding the Maasai community in the transition towards resilient management of natural resources,
improving:
a) the ability of communities (particularly women and other vulnerable groups) to implement the
Community Land Act (CLA) through the dissemination of more inclusive and participatory
governance processes at Community Lands level and increased awareness on issues relating to land
security, disaster risk management, recent developments in the Climate Change Act on the carbon
credit market.

b) dialogue and collaboration with county government authorities for the active involvement of women
in the formulation and implementation of community development plans at the Ward level and in
the management of inter-community conflicts.
c) adaptation to climate change through the dissemination, by cooperatives and women’s groups, of
agricultural, pastoral and agroforestry practices that are resilient to drought in arid and semi-arid
areas: permaculture, support for alternative value chains to pastoralism, sustainable management
of natural resources, access and storage of water resources, regeneration of land and pastures.