Speakers
Waithera Gaitho
Professionally, Waithera Gaitho focuses on youth and women enterprise development-she is an enterprise evangelist. For eight (8) years Waithera has been privileged to nurture the next generation of Africa’s young female and male entrepreneurs and business leaders...
Samuel Kabiru
Samuel is a daring young person from Kenya who believes in creating social impact in communities around the world. He is the current Land Accelerator Africa, Manager. He works to foster entrepreneurship and innovation in support of landscape restoration enterprises in...
Ljubica Butkovic
Ljubica Butkovic, Resource Development Coordinator, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) & World Agroforestry (ICRAF). Ljubica is an experienced resource mobilization and partnerships professional with demonstrated and successful track record in...
Finney Israel
Finney is a patriotic Kenyan, a proud African, and a global citizen. He graduated from the Technical University of Kenya (TUK), with a First Class Honours in International Relations and Diplomacy (BA). He was the most outstanding in his class, constantly exploring and...
Rwanda Stakeholders Build an Action Plan for Land Restoration
By Sabrina Chesterman At the nexus of the United Nations (UN) Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification climate conference, and that of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Regreening Africa Workshop in Rwanda was an...
Land Restoration in Africa Delivers for People and Climate
By Marion Aluoch Over the course of five years, the Regreening Africa project has demonstrated that restoring degraded land contributes to climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity enhancement, and equitable improvement of local communities' livelihoods....
Finance Option for Restoration
WEBINAR REPORTWEBINAR RECORDINGPRESENTATIONSSPEAKERS Background and context The lack of access to finance remains a major impediment to landscape restoration[1]. This is especially true for community-led restoration efforts by grassroots actors such as youth,...
Kenyan Schools Championing Regreening Initiatives
By Tengetile Zanele Mphila Kenya committed to restore 5.1 million hectares of land by 2030. This restoration commitment involves partnering with both state and non-state actors towards implementing various restoration practices, including tree planting, and growing...
Landscape Restoration by Regreening Africa: 5 critical lessons from a massive Research in Development effort
Insights from a recent Regreening Africa Roundtable By *Sandiso Matshikiza Two-thirds of the land in sub-Saharan Africa is highly degraded, threatening the livelihoods of those dependent on it —a staggering 83% of the region’s population. Agroforestry has been used...