The Mau Restoration Project

The Green Belt Movement in collaboration with AFD, seeks to conserve and restore the areas degraded Dundori, Nandi North, and Tinderet forests which are part of the greater Mau Forest complex while improving the livelihoods of surrounding communities.

Outcomes

• The project targets to introduce a paradigm shift from unsustainable land practices to sustainable management supported by forest conservation, incentives for ecosystem services, and income generation through organized alternative livelihoods, and nature-based enterprises on both public and on-farm levels.
• To restore a total of 300 hectares of highly degraded forests will be brought under sustainable forest management.
• Growing of Bamboo tree seedlings, as a critical renewable resource with multiple co-benefits, will be integrated with reforestation alongside other woody species within the intervention sites.
• Part of the proposed project funding will be used to initiate and organize the planting of trees for sustainable Land Management (SLM) projects, i.e., on riparian lands, wetlands, farms, and institutions close to the project sites.