Everything LCLI does serves one goal: the communities of Laisamis holding legal title to their land and thriving on it as the climate changes. Each program is community mandated, NLC anchored, and open to funders who want their support to reach the ground.
Only 64 of Kenya's ~1,000 community land units hold title. We drive registration for the five communities of Laisamis under the Community Land Act, with trained local paralegals doing the work, not outside consultants.
We anchor the Sajili Ardhi ya Jamii registration campaign in Marsabit and carry pastoralist land rights into the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralism, from ward assemblies to national policy rooms.
Community solar, water harvesting, and rangeland restoration across four ecological zones, built with local hands, governed by community structures, and designed so revenue and power stay in Laisamis.
Kenyan law demands free, prior, and informed community consent for any deal that touches community land. We make sure the communities of northern Kenya know their rights, and that anyone eyeing our land knows we are watching.
Priorities come from ward assemblies and the community structures, under NLC oversight, not from funders, and not from us. Consent is documented before anything begins.
We turn community mandates into fundable programs with real budgets, benefit sharing, and reporting funders can stand behind.
Paralegals, monitors, and technicians from Laisamis run the work. Skills, jobs, and authority stay in the community.
Funders, allies, researchers, journalists: tell us who you are and which part of the work you want to stand behind.
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