Tools and leadership are needed for multi-stakeholder collaboration on landscape management in Embu County. Existing community groups like Water Resource Users Associations and Community Forest Associations could help bring different stakeholders together. Participatory approaches to planning, implementation, and monitoring could foster ownership and sustainability. The challenges include overcoming sectoral mindsets, cultural issues, poor infrastructure, and agreeing on benefit sharing from natural resource management.

1. EMBU COUNTY - LANDSCAPE
Tools, capacities and/or leadership would be required for
multi-stakeholder collaboration
Participatory Planning through the Participatory Rural Appraisals; Participatory activity
implementation and; monitoring and Evaluation for ownership and eventual
sustainability; Community Capacity building
Capacities already strengthened
that could be used to help
mobilize partners for cross-
sectoral collaboration
• WRUAs, CFA’s and Focal Development Area
Committees, PSC, PCT, CPFT, FDAC
• Management plans by CFA and WRUAS
• Capacity building of Focal Development
Areas (FDA)
Processes or tools identified for
building cooperation and trust
among different types of
stakeholders
• Community Forest Associations (CFA) and
Water Resource Users Associations
(WRUAs)
• Ecosystem approach
• River basin approach
• Integrated Approach to rural Development
Challenge: Bringing together
different stakeholders in a
platform at the county/
landscape level
• Removing the mindsets of sectors and
bringing integration
• Cultural issues such as the patriarchal land
inheritance system
• Poor Communication infrastructure
• Benefit sharing from NRM
Mr. Paul Njuguna (UTaNRMP)
Joan Kimaiyo (ICRAF-SRI FPP EMBU)
Phone: 07110034015
E-mail: J.kimaiyo@cgiar.org