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ASREP Africa has joined the Global Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP), the world's leading peacebuilding network of 300+ organizations across 181 countries — a strategic milestone that expands ASREP's global partnerships and reinforces its commitment to locally-led peacebuilding, climate security, indigenous knowledge, and resilient livelihoods across Africa's drylands.
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In a widely read op-ed in a Kenyan national daily, ASREP Africa Executive Director Dida Fayo warns that the Ewaso Ny'iro River — a lifeline for 3.6 million people across Kenya's drylands — is dying, and calls for riparian protection, drylands-targeted adaptation finance, and recognition of indigenous knowledge as a climate-adaptation asset.
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ASREP Africa and African Agency for Arid Resources Limited (AGAR) have signed a strategic MOU Framework Agreement to jointly advance community-led ecosystem restoration and inclusive green economic transformation across Kenya's drylands, targeting 10,000 plants and 500+ trained eco-champions over the next six months.
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ASREP Africa's flagship Waso Eco-Champions programme has reached a landmark milestone: 10,000 indigenous trees planted across 10 wards of Isiolo County, mobilising over 2,000 community eco-champions in one of Kenya's most ambitious community-led restoration efforts.
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The Guardian's global environment desk highlights ASREP Africa's community-led conservation model as a template for building locally-funded ecological restoration in an era of declining international aid and USAID funding reductions.
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A landmark partnership with the Kenya School of Government scales the Isiolo-piloted civic education model to all 47 Kenyan counties — a testament to ASREP's community-sourced civic education approach and its national policy resonance.
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International conservation magazine Biographic profiles ASREP Africa's Waso Eco-Champions model as a blueprint for community-funded ecological restoration that operates independently of international donor dependency.
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ASREP releases its debut ASAL Indigenous Knowledge Vault publication — 'Cows, Women & Land' — documenting Borana Oromo ecological and cultural knowledge from Isiolo County. The publication entered policy discourse at county and national level and set a new benchmark for IK documentation in Kenya's ASALs.
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The Isiolo Peace Actors Forum convened its largest session to date, bringing together 500+ pastoral communities, women leaders, and youth from across 10 wards of Isiolo County to address resource-driven conflict and build durable inter-community trust.
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Standard Media (Opinion) · June 24, 2026
“Ewaso Nyiro River Is Dying — and Kenya Cannot Afford to Look Away”
With acknowledgement to: Prof. Nura Mohamed, Jennifer Maurer, Boaz Ogada, Wyss Academy for Nature, Antony Wandera, Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action, Jason Sircely, Tahira Mohamed Shariff, Dr. Diba Dida Wako.
Biographic Magazine · 2026
“The Future of Conservation Without US Aid”
The Guardian · March 2026
“Conservation in the Age of Trump Aid Cuts”
Standard Digital · 2025
“Isiolo Banks on Eco-Champions for Conservation”
People Daily Kenya · 2025
“ASREP's Community Conservation Gains Traction”
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