Legado:Namunyak

In 2021, Legado began partnering with the Northern Rangelands Trust and Namunyak Community Conservancies to bring our legacy approach to Namunyak's communities in northern Kenya. The goal is to use our model to jumpstart community collaboration and action to create a path toward Thriving Futures™.
Namunyak is home to the Samburu, an indigenous, semi-nomadic tribe, as well as to the Mathews Range, a biodiverse Sky Island and one of the region's last remaining tracts of forest. Namunyak’s expansive rangelands are critical to the Samburu’s pastoralist way of life and the forest provides essential ecological services to its 32,000 residents and tens of thousands more people in the surrounding landscape. Namunyak is also home to some of East Africa’s most iconic wildlife.
As part of the Legado:Namunyak collaboration, Samburu communities are pursuing the following legacy priorities:
- Increasing support for gender equity among individuals, communities, and local leaders
- Improved governance and sustainable livelihoods to support a healthy Mathews Forest and surrounding rangelands
- Improving access to community health workers and to a broader range of health services
- Increasing access to primary and secondary education, as part of a broader effort to ensure all children attend school



ABOUT NAMUNYAK

POPULATION:
32,000 People

SIZE:
385,000 ha of savannah and forest

MAJOR LIVELIHOODS:
pastoralism and tourism

ICONIC WILDLIFE:
African wild dogs, reticulated giraffe, Grevy's zebras, elephants

CONSERVATION VALUE:
Location of Mathews Range—northern Kenya's largest remaining tract of forest

Legado:Namunyak is a joint program of


