Journey of Water: Ewaso Ngiro Basin
With WWF Kenya, CESPAD brought the Journey of Water campaign to communities across the Ewaso Ngiro River basin, spotlighting community-led water stewardship.
Read the full story →Resilience
Nature-based restoration, climate-smart agriculture and blended finance that ease resource tensions — over 100,000 hectares restored and measurable reductions in upstream–downstream conflict.
How we work
CESPAD uses the water–climate–food nexus to understand connected pressures rather than treating water, food, climate and conflict as separate problems.
We combine local evidence, stakeholder dialogue and ecological knowledge to shape restoration, climate-smart livelihoods and investment that reduce risk, protect natural resources and support more resilient communities.
Upstream-downstream dialogue platforms that bring competing water users to the table before tension becomes conflict.
Community-based natural resource institutions equipped to manage restoration work and mediate resource-sharing agreements.
Blended finance for nature-based restoration — vetiver, bamboo and coordinated basin planning — at scale.
Evidence
Documented outcomes and work in progress — see the full evidence base on our case studies page.
With WWF Kenya, CESPAD brought the Journey of Water campaign to communities across the Ewaso Ngiro River basin, spotlighting community-led water stewardship.
Read the full story →Tree planting, beekeeping and transboundary water stewardship in the Kibos-Kajulu catchment.
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County governments, donors and partners — let's talk about how this programme area fits your priorities.