Project Financier: Wyss Academy for Nature
Project Year: 2026 (On going)
Implementing Organization: Asben Eco Consultants and Capacity Building Ltd / Climate Change Adaptation Evidence Hub
Project Summary:
The Climate Change Adaptation Evidence Hub is currently implementing a major governance and restoration study titled Comparative Analysis of Rangeland Governance Systems in the Laikipia–Isiolo Landscape, Northern Kenya. The project focuses on understanding how governance systems influence ecological restoration, pastoral mobility, biodiversity conservation, and nature-positive livelihoods within dryland socio-ecological systems.
The project seeks to analyze customary governance systems, conservancy governance structures, grazing institutions, community land management systems, and emerging hybrid governance arrangements across northern Kenya’s rangelands. The study aims to identify governance models that best support sustainable restoration, equitable resource management, climate resilience, and inclusive development.
The project employs a comparative and landscape-level research approach involving governance mapping, participatory grazing assessments, institutional analysis, political economy analysis, focus group discussions, and stakeholder consultations. Special emphasis is placed on mobility systems, restoration governance, conflict management, equity, inclusion, and accountability systems.
The findings are expected to contribute significantly to policy and practice on pastoral governance, restoration sustainability, climate adaptation, and biodiversity conservation. The project will generate governance typologies, institutional coordination frameworks, policy recommendations, and peer-reviewed academic outputs that support sustainable dryland development in Kenya and beyond.