Maasai Victory
Land rights have been a hotly contested issue in the Loliondo area of Tanzania. One of our partner organziations, PALISEP has been very active in their community on this issue and are celebrating a significant victory recently. Read about the issue here in an...
PAPR – Tofino workshop
Our PAPR project is moving into its final year. Plans for the synthesis of the research developed during the porject were the focus of discussion at a workshop of the international team held in Tofino in June. Bruce Downie and Leslie King of the Kesho Trust board of...
Finally underway
Our Promoting Environmental Conservation and Cooperation [PECC] project had been suffering some substantial delays in the start up funding availability from the donor - the Foundation for Civil Society. However, it seems the obstacles have been overcome and funds...
ICAAD Update
Increasing the Profile of Disability Rights – ICAAD Gets Underway A lot has been happening in our four project districts since we began implementing the Improving Community Awareness and Advocacy on Disability project four months ago. In fact, activities didn't really...
Tofino – PAPR Workshop
The Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction Research Alliance [PAPR] is into it s final year now. The project has supported considerable research into the relationships between protected area conservation and the challenges of neighbouring communities under the four...
Perspective on Poverty – A response
Bruce's recent jouranl entry raises some very significant observations around poverty which I would like to build on. As I think you rightly highlight, poverty is multi-dimensional and often subjective which is why coming up with generalised definitions and...
WEC Conceptual Design Report Released
Our volunteer Brent Liddle, who traveled to Tanzania at the end of last year, has completed the conceptual design report for the World Elephant Centre initiative. It is an important step forward in this major undertaking and we appreciate Brent's significant...
Perspective on Poverty – Saadani
“I don’t consider myself poor as long as I have something to eat.” [village interviewee] One of the problems our PAPR research program has had is to understand and address poverty in the context of conservation. Typically, approaches to poverty reduction have been...
Another new project!! ICAAD
ICAAD -Improving Community Awareness and Advocacy on Disability is an initiative to address the rights of disabled people to be part of development projects and programs AND it is an opportunity for the Kesho Trust to develop our capacity to embrace those rights....
Launching ICAAD
Since the project began I have worked on identifying other disabled people and also on identifying barriers and challenges. This work has helped me to realise I am not alone with my disability and that others share many of my challenges. - DPO representative, Ifakara...
Elerai Water Project Completed
In 2012 the Kesho Trust formed a partnership with a funding organziation called Help Every Day who are interested in small local projects. We solicited ideas from our partners and a project submitted by EMAYO was selected for funding which was to extend the rainwater...
2012 Annual Report Released
2012 was another big year for the Kesho Trust. Our annual report highlights some of the many activities and important contributions people have made to the work of the organziation over the past year. Be sure to have a look and keep up to date with our happenings...