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New FundingSustainability

New Funding

We are excited to share that we received USD 6.5 million from USAID in November 2023 to implement a five-year project titled “Conservation of the Maasai Mara Landscape”. The award…
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Building Women’s Capacity for EnterpriseSustainability

Building Women’s Capacity for Enterprise

We successfully transitioned 21 local merry-go-round women groups to village savings and loan association (VSLA) schemes, and they have completed a 12-month cycle of operations. By December 2023, the groups…
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Re-integrating Teenage Mothers into SchoolSustainability

Re-integrating Teenage Mothers into School

The Mara Girls’ Programme is critical in helping us to enhance girls’ education. Besides re-integrating young mothers into school, we hope to reduce cases of early pregnancies in the long…
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Strengthening Conservancies’ GovernanceSustainability

Strengthening Conservancies’ Governance

~ Daniel Ole Muli, Senior Programme Officer, Governance. “The legal entities have enhanced a sense of ownership by making all the players relevant, and their voices count. The Legal entities…
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MMWCA’s CEO on Leading Community Conservation in the Maasai MaraSustainability

MMWCA’s CEO on Leading Community Conservation in the Maasai Mara

By Phoebe Nadupoi He was a celebrated Safari Guide doing what he loved in a landscape he knew, like the palm of his hands. Then, he got thrust into an…
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Mara Tourism College Opens the Door to First CohortEducation

Mara Tourism College Opens the Door to First Cohort

By Morris Nabaala The newly established Wildlife Tourism College of Maasai Mara (WTC) welcomed its first 40 students to its campus at Pardamat Conservation Area on May 4, 2023. The…
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Why Maasai Mara Remains a Significant Cultural and Wildlife HubCulture

Why Maasai Mara Remains a Significant Cultural and Wildlife Hub

By Phoebe Nadupoi In September 2016, while attending the Global Walk for Elephants and Rhinos in Talek, Maasai Mara, an old man rose to speak during the lunch and speeches…
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Addressing Gender Divide Through Policy and Capacity-BuildingWomen & Leadership

Addressing Gender Divide Through Policy and Capacity-Building

Eric Ole Reson. By MMWCA Comms Team The membership of landowners committees, critical conservancies governing organs, for Mara Conservancies were all men. Interestingly, it was a normal thing because, in…
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Securing the Future Through Youth TrainingSustainability

Securing the Future Through Youth Training

By Nemasira Sairowua Heads often turn when Charity Lemein drives by in her safari Toyota Landcruiser. Sighting a female safari guide is a rarity. Well, not that much anymore, but…
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Unlocking Enterprise Opportunities for Women in the Maasai MaraBiodiversity

Unlocking Enterprise Opportunities for Women in the Maasai Mara

By Sharon Shetishoe Women and youth got little direct benefit, specifically lease payment, from conservation. Lack of substantive benefits results from structural issues that see the title holders, the majority…
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Our Blog – The Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association

Our Blog – The Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association (MMWCA) is a Kenyan commitment, to conserve the greater Maasai Mara ecosystem, through a network of protected areas (conservancies and conservation areas). By conserving the greater Maasai Mara ecosystem through this network of community protected areas, we ensure the prosperity of biodiversity and wildlife, the regional Maasai population, recreation, tourism, and the nation of Kenya for generations to come.