Northern Rangelands Trust | Kenya

The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) is a community-led non-governmental organisation that was set up in 2004 in northern Kenya by a coalition of local leaders, politicians and conservation interests. Its mission is to develop resilient community conservancies, which transform people’s lives, secure peace and conserve natural resources. NRT’s membership is made up of 35 member community conservancies and works across 4.5 million hectares of northern and coastal Kenya.

NRT supports and empowers communities to develop locally-led governance structures, run peace and security programs, take the lead in natural resource management, and manage sustainable businesses linked to conservation. The community conservancies are starting to have a significant impact on building peace, improving lives and managing the rangelands, and their success has helped shape new government regulations on establishing, registering and managing community conservancies in Kenya. NRT is now widely seen as a model of how to support community conservancies.

Learn more: nrt-kenya.org