Laisamis Constituency · Marsabit County · Kenya

Our land, registered.
Our climate, defended.
Our future, ours.

LCLI is a community movement for land justice and climate resilience in northern Kenya. We organize the five communities of Laisamis to secure legal title to 1.85 million hectares of ancestral land, build resilience across four ecological zones, and hold anyone who wants our land to the standard the constitution demands: consent.

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1.85M
Hectares of
community land
9
NLC forums
completed
5
Communities
represented
6
Wards
engaged
4
Ecological
zones
What We Do

Three systems.
One integrated approach.

Land Justice & Registration

Only 64 of Kenya's ~1,000 community land units hold title. We train Laisamis youth as community land paralegals and drive registration of our 1.85 million hectares under the Community Land Act. Registration is protection.

Community Land Act Land paralegals NLC partnership

Climate Resilience

Community solar, water harvesting, and rangeland restoration across four ecological zones. Adaptation built and owned by the communities living on the climate frontline, not delivered to them.

Community solar Water systems Rangeland restoration

Accountability & Intelligence

We watch the deals that want our land. Field verified data, land deal monitoring, and public intelligence that lets communities negotiate from knowledge and lets bad deals be seen for what they are.

Land watchdog Field monitoring Public reporting
New Initiative · In Development

Community solar.
Power that pays the people.

LCLI is developing a community owned solar farm in Laisamis, built on the same NLC anchored governance as everything we do. The Chalbi and Kaisut zones hold some of the highest solar irradiance in East Africa. The model is simple: affordable electricity sold directly to local homes and businesses first, with surplus power sold to the national grid, and revenue flowing back through the Community Land Trust.

Revenue Stream 01

Direct to the community

A solar mini grid supplying households, schools, clinics, boreholes, and small businesses at tariffs below standard retail rates. For many families in Laisamis this is first time electricity: light after dark, cold chain for medicine, power for enterprise. Community members are customers and owners, never just beneficiaries.

Revenue Stream 02

To the national grid

Surplus generation sold to Kenya Power under a Power Purchase Agreement, with EPRA generation licensing. Kenya has reopened PPAs under a competitive auction framework, and grid sales convert Laisamis sunshine into long term community income that funds land registration, monitoring, and local services.

Phase 1

Feasibility & consent

Site selection on undisputed community land, documented FPIC through the CLMCs, solar resource and demand assessment, and EPRA/NEMA groundwork.

Phase 2

Community mini grid

Build and operate the first mini grid serving Laisamis homes and institutions, with youth trained as operators and technicians under our existing capacity programme.

Phase 3

Grid tied expansion

Scale generation capacity and secure a PPA to sell surplus power to the national grid, anchoring long term revenue for the Community Land Trust.

The solar programme is one component of the LCLI platform. It complements our land registration and climate resilience work and answers to the same community structures. It does not replace them.

Foundation Metrics

Built on real ground.
Measured from day one.

Every number here is verified, not projected.

1.85M
Hectares of community land
4 ecological zones · 6 wards
9
NLC forums completed
All 6 wards · 2024 to 2025
5
Communities represented
Rendille · Samburu · Gabbra · El Molo · Turkana
80%
Of Kenya is ASAL land
Technology proven here works at continental scale
The Land

20,290 km² across
four ecological zones

From highland forest at 2,066m to the Chalbi Desert: one constituency, four distinct climate environments, one structured partnership access point.

Zone II: Highland Forest

Mt. Kulal & Marsabit highlands, up to 1,000mm rainfall, altitude to 2,066m. UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Highest biodiversity and restoration value.

Zone IV: Semi Arid Mid Slopes

Transitional zone. Soil health measurement, agri climate data, solar irrigation potential. Gateway between highland and dryland systems.

Zone V/VI: Arid Bushed Grassland

300 to 900m. Primary deployment zone for solar, water harvesting, and remote sensing. Rangeland restoration potential.

Chalbi / Kaisut Desert

Extreme aridity, highest solar irradiance in East Africa. Unique conditions for atmospheric water and off grid energy technology deployment.

"ASAL regions cover 80% of Kenya and 40% of sub Saharan Africa. Climate technology proven in Laisamis is technology proven for one of the world's largest underserved markets."

Laisamis Climate & Land Initiative · Partnership Briefing 2026
Governance

Community owned.
Constitutionally anchored.

The governance failures that damaged high profile African land projects follow one pattern: weak consent, no legal anchor, benefits captured by intermediaries. We built the structure to prevent exactly that.

Organizational Anchor

LCLI is a program of the Feiyah Action Network (FAN), a registered Community Based Organization in Marsabit County. Funding, partnership agreements, and legal accountability run through FAN's registered structure, so partners engage with an established legal entity from day one, not a new organization with no track record.

1

National Land Commission (NLC)

Constitutional body under Article 67. Nine formal forums completed across all 6 wards with documented resolutions. Cannot be overridden by any individual, NGO, or investor.

2

Community Land Trust

Being established with elected ward trustees from all five communities. Benefit sharing agreements embedded from the start. Community owned, not NGO managed.

3

Marsabit County Government

Formal institutional cover through County Land CECM. Ensures continuity beyond individual election cycles or political changes.

4

Politicians as conveners only

The Laisamis MP and Governor open community assemblies. Governance authority rests entirely with the NLC and the Community Land Trust.

⚠ Legal Clarity

~173,700 hectares are subject to an active High Court case and are excluded from any partnership commitment until resolved. All agreements use only undisputed, NLC registered land.

Who We Engage

  • National Land Commission (NLC)
  • Marsabit County Government
  • Marsabit Youth Reform Program
Insights

Knowledge from the field.

Land & Climate April 2026

Why ASAL Land is Africa's Most Undervalued Climate Technology Asset

The world's climate technology investors are searching for real world deployment environments. Africa's dryland majority offers exactly that, and remains largely untapped.

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Governance April 2026

Community Land Governance in Northern Kenya: What the NLC Process Actually Means

The National Land Commission is Kenya's constitutional anchor for community land rights. What the process involves and what it protects communities from.

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Field Intelligence April 2026

Four Ecological Zones, One Constituency: A Field Guide for Climate Technology Deployment

From highland forest to Chalbi Desert floor, Laisamis contains four distinct environments within a single administrative boundary.

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Hamed Nalle, founder of LCLI
About

Rooted in Laisamis.
Built for the long term.

Hamed Nalle is a community development practitioner and social innovator born and raised in Laisamis Constituency. He is the son of the late Ntepesi Nalle, a respected community leader whose legacy of service directly informs the values on which this initiative is built.

Through the Feiyah Action Network (FAN), a registered Community Based Organization, and the Marsabit Youth Reform Program, Hamed has built deep grassroots networks across the constituency, working on youth empowerment, gender equality, and environmental conservation for over a decade.

LCLI is a new program launched under FAN, extending a decade of grassroots trust into land justice and climate resilience. As a program of a registered CBO, LCLI carries FAN's legal standing and community relationships from day one, not a new organization starting from zero.

Support the Movement

Land justice needs
people behind it.

Registering 1.85 million hectares, training land paralegals, and defending community land takes sustained support. Here is how to stand with Laisamis.

Fund the work

Foundations, climate justice funds, and philanthropists: fund the paralegal program, the registration drive, or the watchdog work directly. We provide full program budgets and reporting, and every engagement is governed by community structures.

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Give as an individual

A public donation channel is launching soon. Until it is live, individual supporters can reach us directly, every contribution goes through the community governance structures, and we will show you what it did.

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Stand with us

Subscribe to the field intelligence, share our work, and if you see a land deal in northern Kenya that communities should know about, tell us. Attention is protection.

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LCLI works alongside the Feiyah Action Network. All support is applied under community governance, with disputed land excluded from every program.

Get Involved

Start a conversation.
Build something real.

We are actively engaging land rights and climate justice funders, resilience partners, researchers, journalists, and allies of the Sajili Ardhi ya Jamii registration push. Tell us who you are. We respond within 48 hours.

Email hamednalle@laisamisclimate.co.ke
WhatsApp +254 706 594 510
Location Laisamis, Marsabit County, Kenya
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