Strengthening Sustainable Forest Governance and Management Systems in Kirisia/Leroghi Forest, Kenya - GCP/KEN/073/GFF
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Kirisia/Leroghi Forest is situated in Samburu County, Kenya. The forest and the ecosystem around the county are widely recognized as critical for maintaining the Samburu heartland as a functioning ecosystem, and particularly its role as a key habitat for wildlife and carbon storage. The population around the forest consists mainly of the pastoralist Samburu community, which has been managing the forest through traditional management systems in the past and uses the forest for wood products, non-timber forest products, and as a grazing fallback zone. However, due to policies of past administrations, the traditional governance system has deteriorated, leading to vast degradation, an influx of people settling within the forest boundaries, wildfires of an anthropological nature, and year-round grazing, thus depressing natural regeneration of the forest. Against this background, the project aimed to strengthen sustainable forest governance and management systems in Kirisia/Leroghi Forest to tackle current and emerging threats.