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…
maraDecember 23, 2023
MMWCA’s CEO on Leading Community Conservation in the Maasai Mara
MMWCA was able to provide better coordination and amplify conservation benefits to the local people, which led to a mindset…
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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…
maraDecember 23, 2023
Nasieku (not her real name), a teenager from Aitong’ got pregnant in class seven and delivered in early 2023. Her parents were unwilling to take her back to school until…
maraDecember 23, 2023
We have made incredible progress in building the governance infrastructure of our member conservancies. Notably, we supported 13 conservancies to register legal entities in 2023, bringing the total number of…
maraDecember 23, 2023
MMWCA was able to provide better coordination and amplify conservation benefits to the local people, which led to a mindset change and eventual behaviour change resulting in the establishment of…
maraAugust 22, 2023
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 students are pursuing…
maraAugust 22, 2023
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 session that followed…
maraAugust 22, 2023
The membership of landowners committees, critical conservancies governing organs, for Mara Conservancies were all men. Interestingly, it was a normal thing because, in any case, men owned the land as…
maraAugust 22, 2023
