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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
A Note from MSWC President
Scaling up for impact at the heart of MSWC’s strategy Guy Pfeffermann, December 1, 2020. I extend a very special thank you to our donors who have made it possible to get our start-up off the ground, and tip my hat to the wider community for their growing interest in leadership and management training for […]
Lioness of Lewa
Guy Pfeffermann, on Lewa Conservancy, 2019. Nestled north of Mount Kenya, Lewa Conservancy is a model of its kind. Most famously, its efforts these past twenty years brought the black rhino population back from near-extinction to over eighty individuals. On one of our daily range drives Irene and I came across two lions, who didn’t […]