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ASREP joined the County Government of Isiolo and hundreds of young people to mark International Youth Day 2026 under the theme 'Different Contexts, Common Aspirations,' spotlighting the Isiolo County Youth Policy.
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ASREP joined the National Drought Management Authority and communities from five counties for the 2026 Road Race for Peace & Resilience — a cross-county call for drought preparedness, early warning, and peaceful coexistence.
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ASREP and the Kenya School of Government took the Under the Tree governance conversation to the airwaves on Nagaa Radio, reaching Isiolo listeners with civic education framed around the county's youth-unemployment and poverty challenges.
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One Earth Partners has spotlighted ASREP Africa as a homegrown Kenyan nonprofit 'already moving boldly' and ready to scale — pointing to its Kenya Forest Service partnership, global media features, and the long-term livelihood potential of its Acacia senegal restoration.
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ASREP Africa has welcomed Wanjiru Mburu — known in her community as 'JAJABDU' — as Gender & Youth Empowerment Manager, bringing nearly a decade of grassroots leadership advancing women and young people across Northern Kenya.
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With 78% of Isiolo County's rangelands reported as degraded, an FAO-supported cross-learning exchange brought stakeholders together for hands-on training in QGIS, spatial data management, and geospatial analysis to strengthen digital land governance.
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ASREP joined more than 40 agencies to plan a 'Whole-of-Society' approach to governance and citizen engagement in Isiolo — anchored by a four-day Under the Tree Series pilot in Wabera Ward this August.
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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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On World Environment Day 2026, ASREP Africa released the State of the Ewaso Nyiro 2026 feature paper — an evidence-based assessment of the environmental pressures and climate risks facing more than 3.6 million people across Laikipia, Isiolo, Samburu, Marsabit, Wajir, and Southern Somalia.
Read MoreASREP 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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ASREP Africa marked the International Day of Forests 2026 at Raap Primary School in Oldonyiro, Isiolo County, under the theme 'Forests & Economies' — advancing the #WasoEcoChampsProject and its target of 200,000 trees by mid-2026 in support of Kenya's 15 Billion Trees directive.
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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.
Read MoreThe 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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