by Allan Ward, December 1, 2020.
The good news is that we have agreed a partnership to deliver the women Leadership and Management Programme (LAMP) with the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT). NRT supports 39 community conservancies across northern and coastal Kenya. Recruitment of the women trainees took place in the last two weeks of October 2020, with the first training module held on November 3rd to 6th, 2020. The three remaining modules are scheduled to run December through February 2021.
The women will be drawn from two neighboring community conservancies: Il Ngwesi and Lekuruki. These communities are predominately Maasai who sustain themselves through a pastoralist way of life. The women selected will be leaders in their respective communities, leading various women associations. Once selected, each woman will be asked to participate in a pre-training program interview to provide baseline information that will allow us to assess the impact of the training. The interviews will include questions about their current situation, their dreams and aspirations, their expectations from the training, and the challenges they face as women leaders in their communities.
Irene Lepudati from Kalama Community Conservancy participating in a leadership, team building, and communication exercise as part of the LAMP training. 
Irene following verbal direction from her team to complete the puzzle.
Our program will contribute to the agenda of gender inclusion and empowerment, where more than 80% of the women are unschooled and illiterate.
The unique training content has been developed over several years so that it provides learning on essential leadership and management concepts in a visual and practical way, thus making the learning easily accessible to those who are illiterate and unschooled.
Our women leaders training program is part of a broader NRT project to assist conservancies on their journey to a self-sufficient and sustainable future.
Allan Ward
Allan has over thirty years of history with Kenya, and since 2014 a large proportion of Allan’s work has been in the community conservation field, mainly in northern and coastal Kenya. He has worked with the senior teams of conservation organisations, and elders and leaders from rural community conservancies. This transformational impact results from the one-of-a-kind methodology and content that Allan has created, drawing on over thirty years of experience in leadership, management, adult learning, and behavioural change.