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Community stories on direct financing implementation: Experience from IMPACT Kenya

By Peter Lengurnet, RESTORE project Manager, IMPACT Kenya, hub in the Reversing the Flow programme About RESTORE project: ‘Learning of direct financing implementation’ with the communities My name is Peter Lengurnet, working with IMPACT Kenya as the RESTORE-RTF Project Manager. The project is undertaken in two wards in Laikipia County (Mukogodo West and Mukogodo East) and Burat ward in Isiolo County. In these wards, the pastoral communities depend on pastoralism as the main source of livelihoods. However, climate variations destabilizes and threatens their livelihoods, leaving them vulnerable. As a hub, our role is to facilitate the process, while the community groups (such as the women, youth, Ilmamusi CFA, community lands and Isiolo Gender Watch) take a lead in designing, planning and implementing their priorities interventions. This however takes time and needs honest discussions. After the project was approved in October 2022, the first step was the baseline meetings. In these meetings, community groups and stakeholders at landscape level identified challenges… Continued