SPRING OF THE ARID AND SEMI ARID LANDS (SASAL)

Amplifies advocacy through the Pastoralists Awake initiative, climate storytelling, and digital campaigns—including an advocacy song with over 135,000 YouTube views and 10,000 TikTok challenges—while growing social media followings across platforms.

Provides emergency relief including dry food supplies, mattresses, beddings, and sanitary towels to flood-affected families and schoolgirls in Kajiado County, reaching 100 families (70% women-led) and multiple schools for a full school term.

Implements the Enkang’ Model—a holistic, community-led approach integrating water access, solar energy, climate-resilient housing, sanitation, kitchen gardening, land restoration, and gender-equal practices—by settling beneficiaries as a community and training them to abandon harmful cultural norms and adopt climate-resilient livelihoods, based on traditional Maasai village structures.

Supports food security and profitable livestock keeping through climate-smart agriculture and kitchen garden initiatives, benefiting 35 people with improved nutrition and livelihoods.

Sends 3–4 delegates annually to global and national policy forums such as CSW69, F20 Forum, UN Climate Conference, Peer Learning Forum, and COP30, including live performances at international events like COP30 in Brazil to influence climate policy.

Provides daily water access to approximately 20 households (140 people) and 2,200 livestock (2,000 goats and 200 donkeys) via a water pipeline, and supplies solar energy to over 30 people per day as part of climate-resilient infrastructure in Kajiado County.

Strengthens the capacity of pastoralist communities and leaders to engage in climate policy through trainings on climate change and adaptation basics, and leadership development, including photography training for storytelling and advocacy.

Conducts flood awareness and mitigation training for community members, focusing on risk assessment and climate adaptation, as part of broader climate change awareness, mitigation, and adaptation programs for pastoral communities.

Hosts over 300 local and international visitors at the Enkang’ village for observation, learning, and knowledge exchange on climate resilience and gender equality models.

Implements land restoration programs to improve landscape safety for humans and wildlife, building on prior projects and integrated into the Enkang’ Model.

Conducts research to identify root causes of gender-based violence linked to environmental stressors and produces studies and documentaries on the psychosocial impacts of climate change, including mental health, dignity, culture, and social cohesion, with findings disseminated to advocacy groups and online audiences.