KCDF received a generous grant from Claude Marie to facilitate its unsupported operational costs to ensure work in the Environment and Natural Resources Management is successful.
With this support, in 2023/2024, KCDF implemented three projects in partnership with five partners across four counties in Kenya. These projects aimed to inculcate the spirit of environmental conservation and sustainable resource management among communities, with interventions implemented in learning institutions, forest areas, religious places, markets, and other community spaces.
KCDF worked with 180 learning institutions, planting 354,877 trees with a survival rate of 70%. Each learning institution engaged the learners through environmental/eco clubs bringing out environmental champions who are leading in environmental conservation within the learning institutions and at home.
Additionally, KCDF facilitated work on adopting alternative energy-saving practices, including using industrial boilers in learning institutions, energy-saving cook stoves, and solar lanterns in households.
We also facilitated a Young Environmentalist Innovative Challenge (YEIC) to bring out innovations that would solve environmental issues while impacting livelihoods and education in communities.
Five innovations have been identified and awarded Ksh. 5 Million each to actualize their ideas. The innovations are around growing fruit trees in schools, utilizing machines to support farmers in detecting and controlling pests and diseases in farms, and plastic, post-harvest, plastic, and organic waste management.