The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) joined forces in 2019, leveraging a combined 65 years’ experience in research on the role of forests and trees in solving critical global challenges.
The Biodiversity management program with financial support from European Union through Intergovernmental Authority on Development has five main thematic focuses on; cross border exchange, land Use Planning; community conservation; biodiversity value chains and agroforestry interventions. One of the main reasons to promote land use planning is to ensure that biodiversity is conserved by mainstreaming biodiversity information into the existing land use plan in Kenya and Somalia cross border area. It is from this background that ICRAF, one of the implementing partners of the IGAD BMP, commissioned various consultants, research fellow and staff based on their specialty to undertake different biodiversity assessment both on land and sea scape to synthesis existing and possibly new information of the existing biodiversity in the Kenya-Somalia cross border area.
After completion of the assessment, ICRAF in discussion with project stakeholders organized a two day workshop to allow the assessments lead persons present their findings to stakeholder for review and validation of the report’s findings. Reports will then be submitted to relevant authorities with policies formulation mandate and land use planning to mainstream the information into the spatial plans and other institutional plans. The workshop had different sessions focusing on presentations of the findings, panel discussion and group discussion to validate and endorse the reports.
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