Northern Rangelands Trust

• Awer Community Conservancy
• Biliqo-Bulesa
• Hanshak Nyongoro Conservancy
• Il Ngwesi Group Ranch
• Ishaqbini
• Jaldesa Community Conservancy
• Kainuk
• Kalama Community Wildlife Conservancy
• Katilu
• Kiunga Marine Community Conservancy
• Lekurruki Conservation Ltd
• Leparua Community Conservancy
• Lochakula
• Lokichar
• Lower Tana Delta Conservation trust
• Ltungai Community Conservancy
• Masol
• Meibae Community Conservancy
• Melako
• Mpuskutuk Community Wildlife
• Conservancy
• Naibunga Conservancy Trust
• Nakuprat-Gotu Community Conservancy Ltd
• Namunyak
• Nasuulu Community Conservancy
• Ndera Community Conservancy
• Ngare Ndare
• Pate Island Conservation Group
• Pellow
• Sera Community Conservancy
• Shurr
• Songa Community Conservancy
• Westgate Community Conservancy

NRT supports it members in a number of ways:

It raises funds for the conservancies. In 2016, NRT supported conservancies with a total of Ksh 854 million for conservancy operations. It seeks to create financial sustainability, with the hope that conservancies are able to finance a third of the operations through commercial enterprise, a third through government funding and a third through donor funding. County governments, such as Samburu and Marsabit, have historically provided significant infrastructure development grants to conservancies, but in 2016 a new 50% cost-share model with the Samburu county government has been developed to support operational budgets in Nkoteiya. This shows a remarkable step in creating deeper engagements and practical development agendas at the county level.

NRT provides conservancies with operational support through a network of regional managers, rangeland coordinators and research and monitoring officers. NRT monitors the management and programmatic performance providing landowners and donors with a degree of assurance and oversight.

• Regional Directors provide governance and management support to conservancy management and boards. They ensure that conservancies operate as legal entities in a transparent and equitable way for its members. They attend meetings and act as a sounding board and problem solvers for conservancy management.

• Rangeland coordinators work with conservancy staff to plan annual wet and dry season grazing plans at a conservancy and regional level. Conservancies form contiguous spaces for pastoral movement, and frequently experience movements of livestock from outside. This requires proper planning to direct and track movement and numbers, and estimate the availability of pasture. Additionally, 70% of these rangelands have been classified as severely degraded. NRT, is working with the Grevy’s Zebra Trust to rehabilitate rangelands through planned grazing, bunched herding and grass re-seeding. 869 hectares have been cleared and reseeded since 2012.

The Grevy’s Zebra Trust was established to address an urgent need to conserve Grevy’s Zebra (Equus grevyi) in the community rangelands of Kenya and Ethiopia.

Ewaso Lions is dedicated to conserving lions and other large carnivores by promoting co-existence between people and wildlife.

Lewa Wildlife Conservancy is the heart of wildlife conservation, sustainable development and responsible tourism in northern Kenya and our successful working model has provided the framework on which many conservation organizations in the region are based.

GIZ is working with local and international partners to train young people on technical and vocational education and training, to equip them with appropriate skills to meet the demands of the labor market, especially the private sector. Other areas of support include renewable energy, good governance with a focus on combating corruption, peace-building and migration management.

Ol Pejeta Conservancy is a caretaker of the land, safeguarding endangered species and ensuring the openness and accessibility of conservation for all through innovation and empowerment.