Management Skills for Wildlife Conservation (MSWC) is pleased to welcome Sanne Bitter to its Board of Directors. Bitter is the Strategy Director at the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT), a membership organization serving over 700,000 community members across 45 community conservancies in Kenya and Uganda. In this role, she is responsible for developing the long-term vision and a […]
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MSWC Welcomes Patrick Klemz to Board of Directors
Patrick Klemz has been practicing corporate and nonprofit law for more than 10 years and is currently Vice President of the Washington, D.C. law firm Quinn, Racusin & Gazzola Chartered. Klemz represents nonprofits operating in spaces ranging from the arts and sciences to community building and poverty alleviation. Patrick has a particular interest in wildlife […]
MSWC Welcomes CEO of Wildlife Clubs of Kenya to its Board of Directors
Management Skills for Wildlife Conservation is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Margaret Otieno to its Board of Directors. Otieno is a conservation educator and CEO/National Coordinator of Wildlife Clubs of Kenya. She holds a PhD in Climate Change and Education for Sustainable Development and an MSc in Environment and Development. MSWC Founder and President […]
LAMP Training integral to well-governed community conservancies.
The latest Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) Bi-Annual Report cites Good Governance, Effective Management, and Financial Viability as the three pillars underpinning NRT’s approach to conservancy resilience. The Report outlines Good Governance as “community-driven decision making that results in strong community ownership, equitable benefit distribution, and transparent and accountable conservancy boards and administration”. MSWC is pleased […]
MSWC Advisory Board Member Richard Vigne to lead School of Wildlife Conservation.
The African Leadership University’s School of Wildlife Conservation has appointed Richard Vigne as its first-ever Executive Director. Vigne joined the Management Skills for Wildlife Conservation Advisory Board in September 2021, after stepping down as CEO of Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia Kenya –– now East Africa’s largest sanctuary for black rhinos –– which he founded in 1994. […]
Wildlife conservation through indigenous community development.
Women from the Lekurruki and Il Ngwesi Community Conservancies in Kenya who completed the Leadership and Management Program (LAMP) in February 2021, were asked to evaluate their experience of the training and share insights into their newly acquired knowledge. The training consisted of monthly two to three day modules with module one kicking off in […]
Richard Vigne joins MSWC Advisory Board
Management Skills for Wildlife Conservation (MSWC) is pleased to welcome conservation practitioner Richard Vigne to its Advisory Board. Born and raised in Kericho western Kenya as the son of a tea planter, Vigne has more than two decades experience in Africa, where he developed and managed the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia Kenya. Under Vigne’s […]
From top-down to ‘bottom-top’: A new approach to conservation.
April 21, 2021 – Speaking during an Earth Week webinar hosted by Maliasili entitled Community-led conservation in Africa, Daniel Sopia, Chief Executive Officer at the Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association, made the following remarks about the changes he’s observing in wildlife conservation management in that region: From Kenya’s Maasai Mara side, I think what makes […]
“I’ve never felt so empowered.”
An Update from our “Train Women Leaders for Wildlife Conservation” LAMP cohort. Allan Ward, February 3, 2021. This was the comment of one of the 30 women trainees during the third module of their Leadership and Management Program (LAMP) training. The woman, who serves on the board of the community wildlife conservancy, went on to […]
Women cohort begin their LAMP training.
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 […]