ACTNOW KENYA

Actions for Climate Transformation with Nature Observation and Wellbeing in Kenya Community Based Organization

Educate.Conserve.Transform

Why ACTNOW KENYA Exist

• More than 80% of the Kenya’s landmass is arid and semi-arid land (ASAL) with poor infrastructure, and other developmental challenges.

• The annual forest cover loss within Mukogodo is estimated to be 383 ha.

• Over 44,000 species are threatened with extinction.

• An estimated 45.8 per 100,000 deaths in Africa attributed to WASH diseases.

• 2.6m livestock deaths reported due to prolonged drought in Kenya between 2020 and 2023.

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160k+

People will be served

Trees planted

311,496 ha

Landscape restoration opportunities

ACTNOW KENYA Main Areas of Action

We work on some of the world's critical environmental crises, such as:

Climate change

The drought of 2020-2023 was reported to be the worst in 40 years in Kenya and East Africa leaving 4.35 million people in need of humanitarian...

Environment and Social governance

For Indigenous communities, land means more than property– it encompasses culture, relationships, ecosystems, social systems, spirituality, and law.

Clean water

The challenges regarding access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene are profound and multifaceted with far-reaching impacts on health, education, and overall quality of life.

Agrifood systems

1.4 million children under age of 5 go to bed hungry every day in arid areas of Kenya due to food insecurity and malnutrition...

Research and information

Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) has been instrumental in the survival of the Maasai communities through ages...

The Mukogodo Forest

Mukogodo Forest, a 302-square-kilometer (117-square-mile) tract of largely intact dry forest in Laikipia North is home to 45 mammal species, including threatened elephants, buffaloes and leopards, as well as around 200 bird and 100 butterfly species...

Sustainable solutions are locally-led

We partner with schools, community elders and smallholder farmers – particularly women farmers and youth – to promote climate action, conservation, sustainable agriculture, water management and local indigenous knowledge. We do this through activism, community capacity development and resources mobilization.

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About Us

Our Work

The Indigenous Laikipia

Because no matter who we are or where we come from, we’re all entitled to the basic human rights of clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and healthy land to call home.

- Martin Luther King III