| Commissioning Unit: | Kenya |
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| Evaluation Plan: | 2018-2022 |
| Evaluation Type: | Project |
| Completion Date: | 04/2021 |
| Unit Responsible for providing Management Response: | Kenya
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| Documents Related to overall Management Response: |
Key Action Update History
KWS work with AET and RPs to develop a sustainability plan for the implementation of the AEMP.
Management Response: [Added: 2021/08/02]
KWS and AET are gazetted as the key partners to the coordination of the implementation of the AEMP and will take up the mandate.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 .Draft a plan for community and organisational engagement, and financial flows by stakeholders to the implementation of the AEMP strategies and activities
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2021/09/13] |
• KWS • AET • ACC • MWCT • Big Life | 2021/07 | Completed | Done History | |
| 1.2 Mobilize partners/stakeholders to AEMP implementation based on the available resources, focusing on Years 1 to 3.
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2021/09/13] |
• KWS • AET • ACC • MWCT • Big Life | 2021/08 | Completed | Done History | |
| 1.3. Institute a bi-annual stakeholders and resources review of the sustainability plan
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2021/09/13] |
• KWS • AET • ACC • MWCT • Big Life | 2021/08 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This action will no longer be persued since the project closed down.] History |
Discuss and develop a sustainability plan to facilitate AET’s continued leadership and coordination role
Management Response: [Added: 2021/08/02]
Fully Accept. Through the project implementation committee (PIC), AET has been positioned as the AEMP implementation coordinator of all partners, stakeholders and landowners. The prevailing situation is that most partners active in the Amboseli Landscape are resourced through philanthropic contributions and can only forecast annual activities dependent on the resources at hand.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Establish Project Implementation Committee (PIC) as provided in the AEMP: ToRs for the PIC and members appointed.
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2021/09/13] |
• AET • KWS • ACC • MWCT • Big Life • ALOCA • AECF | 2021/07 | Completed | The PIC has been established. A meeting was held in July to initiate this. History | |
| Establish the modalities and focal points for routine coordination action by AET/PIC.
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2021/09/13] |
• AET • KWS • ACC • MWCT • Big Life • ALOCA • AECF | 2021/07 | Completed | No further from UNDP. KWS and AET will continue with the coordination activities with the stakeholders within the landscape executing the AEMP. History | |
| Develop a resource mobilisation plan for PIC coordination actions in the short term
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2021/09/13] |
• AET • KWS • ACC • MWCT • Big Life • ALOCA • AECF | 2021/07 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: The project closed down] History |
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| Develop a resource mobilisation plan for PIC coordination actions in the short term
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2021/09/13] |
• AET • KWS • ACC • MWCT • Big Life • ALOCA • AECF | 2021/07 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: The Project closed down.] History |
Host AEMP stakeholder meeting to review the AEMP Plan Implementation Structure and formally establish and identify members of all required committees:
- Plan Implementation Committee
- Research and Monitoring committee
- Education, awareness and extension services committee
- Tourism Development and Management committee
- Finance and resource mobilization committee:
- Enterprise Development committee
Management Response: [Added: 2021/08/02]
Partially Accept. The AEMP implementation has been detailed in the Plan but a review is welcome given the dynamics in resource availability and stakeholders engagement in the Amboseli Landscape interventions. This will optimize and synergize the actions of all the partners.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respective committees ToRs developed and approved by the PIC.
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2021/09/13] |
• AET • KWS • ACC • MWCT • Big Life • ALOCA • AECF • GRs • County Gov’t • Amboseli landscape Research Organisations | 2021/09 | Completed | This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further History | |
| PIC review of AEMP implementation structure
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2021/09/13] |
• AET • KWS • ACC • MWCT • Big Life • ALOCA • AECF • GRs • County Gov’t • Amboseli landscape Research Organisations | 2021/09 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further ] History |
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| Stakeholders forum validate the implementation structure and ToRs, and appoint members to the respective committees
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2021/09/13] |
• AET • KWS • ACC • MWCT • Big Life • ALOCA • AECF • GRs • County Gov’t • Amboseli landscape Research Organisations | 2021/10 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further ] History |
Host AEMP stakeholder meeting to review actions identified in the AEMP Plan to identify:
- priority actions to be implemented
- budget required to support actions and potential sources of funding
- key implementing agency and supporting implementing parties for each action
- ten year plan with a timeline for implementation of each of the AEMP actions
Management Response: [Added: 2021/08/02]
Fully Accept. Multiyear workplan is to be developed from the AEMP that prioritises action based on resources and stakeholders capacities to implement the Plan in the short and longer term
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stakeholders meeting to prioritize the workplan activities and get commitments for implementation by partners
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2021/12/02] |
• AET • KWS • ACC • MWCT • Big Life • ALOCA • AECF • GRs • County Gov’t • Research Partners | 2021/10 | Completed | Project Implementation Committee (PIC) developed a 3-year work plan that is currently under implementation with partners own funds in their ongoing initiatives. The PIC monitors and documents the progress. History | |
| Technical team appointed by the PIC to develop draft multi-year workplan
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2021/09/13] |
• AET • KWS • ACC • MWCT • Big Life • ALOCA • AECF • GRs • County Gov’t • Research Partners | 2021/09 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further ] History |
Develop mechanisms to ensure that when land subdivision occurs, private land owners follow management as defined by the AEMP, i.e. filling the gap left when GR committees are no longer in control of private land. ALOCA established in Kimana GRs, represents and coordinates private owners of the six conservancies and provides a good working model.
Management Response: [Added: 2021/08/02]
Partially Accept: The AEMP is gazetted and taken as a subsidiary document to the Kajiado County Spatial Plan with regards to landuse in the Amboseli Landscape. Regulation and enforcement of the proposed landuse under the AEMP will be implemented based on these provisions.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lobby for the PIC comments/approval as a step in the land ownership and/or landuse change process within the Amboseli Landscape
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/06/27] |
• KWS • AET • ACC • MWCT • Big Life • ALOCA • AECF | 2022/09 | Completed | The PIC approved the land-use proposals in the AEMP and facilitated group ranches meetings on parcelling the land to individual land titles, at the same time recommending the individuals to release their parcels for wildlife rangelands History | |
| Develop a land trust that can purchase parcels on offer and keep them for the wildlife dispersal area/conservancy land use for the areas identified as corridors and dispersal
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/06/27] |
• KWS • AET • ACC • MWCT • Big Life • ALOCA • AECF | 2022/06 | Completed | The Process is being undertaken under an ongoing USAID supported project over the next 4 years History | |
| Engage County Government in mainstreaming the AEMP as a land use management tool guideline in the subdivision processes
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/04/17] |
• KWS • AET • ACC • MWCT • Big Life • ALOCA • AECF | 2022/03 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further] History |
Complete a post-project gender analysis to identify:
- gender issues learned/encountered over the course of the project
- project outputs that support the empowerment of women and mechanisms to sustain these outputs
- recommendations / strategies to address gender issues going forward
Management Response: [Added: 2021/08/02]
Partially Accept. There were gender considerations in the implementation of the project. At least 20% of participation in key strategic and planning meetings for this project comprised women. Some activities such as bead work, pasture enhancements, milk banking, among others, specifically targeted women groups and hence had 100% participation of women. Livelihoods that specifically targeted women were also implemented, and tangible results realized from the interventions. Documentation was the weakest link and this will be addressed
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document project activities that targeted the women groups highlighting the challenges addressed by activities, implementation experiences and the lessons
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/04/17] |
• UNDP • KWS • ACC • MWCT • Big Life | 2022/03 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further] History |
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| Mainstream/engender the AEMP and multiyear workplans
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/04/17] |
• UNDP • KWS • ACC • MWCT • Big Life | 2022/12 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further] This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further History |
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| Disseminate lessons for mainstreaming into ongoing activities in the Amboseli Landscape and wildlife sector.
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/04/17] |
• UNDP • KWS • ACC • MWCT • Big Life | 2022/03 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further] History |
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| Disseminate lessons for mainstreaming into ongoing activities in the Amboseli Landscape and wildlife sector.
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/04/17] |
• UNDP • KWS • ACC • MWCT • Big Life | 2022/03 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further] History |
Develop a communication strategy for the AEMP to better communicate and advocate the work completed by the Southern Rangelands project.
Management Response: [Added: 2021/08/02]
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Fully Accept. Knowledge of partner activities and the planned interventions allows for synergy of action and updates of the conservation situation within the Amboseli Landscape. Lessons from past implementation useful in improving delivery and mobilisation of resources for the AEMP implementation. |
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technical team appointed by PIC drafts a communication strategy that details cost
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2021/09/13] |
• KWS • AET • UNDP | 2021/09 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further ] This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further History |
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| Partners package knowledge products on the Southern Rangelands project results that will be a baseline and also inform AEMP implementation
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/04/17] |
• KWS • AET • UNDP | 2022/03 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further] History |
Coordinate, harmonise and standardise ecological monitoring within the landscape and aim to produce landscape level information that has identified and addressed the gaps
Management Response: [Added: 2021/08/02]
Fully Accept. Various monitoring activities are ongoing at all levels. Independently the community scouts, research institutions and partner organisations undertaking short studies and long-term studies. These range from the seasonal pasture condition to the tracking of collared animals to understand their range and distribution. Institutionalization of an information depository and access protocols is a timely need.
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identify organisation and mechanism that would optimize information depository and sharing within the Amboseli Landscape.
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/04/17] |
• KWS • AET • ACC • MWCT • Big Life | 2022/03 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further] This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further History |
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| Develop information sharing and access protocol for the Amboseli Landscape partners and stakeholders.
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/06/12] |
• KWS • AET • ACC • MWCT • Big Life | 2022/05 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This project ended. Additional resources to undertake proposed activities are unavailable. This action point will therefore no longer be tracked.] This project ended. Additional resources to undertake proposed activities are unavailable. This action point will therefore no longer be tracked. History |
Coordinate and harmonize approaches within the landscape to security, anti poaching, patrols, compensation for crop raiding and other damage.
Management Response: [Added: 2021/08/02]
Fully Accept. Wildlife security, human wildlife conflict and compensation schemes in place by the different partners in the Amboseli Landscape stands to benefit from synergy if a focal point is established
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Link the respective partner security systems to the KWS command center
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/04/17] |
• KWS • AET • ACC • MWCT • Big Life | 2022/03 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further] This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further History |
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| Approval of the HWC Protocols developed by the Amboseli Landscape partners followed by its adoption/use by all
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/04/17] |
• KWS • AET • ACC • MWCT • Big Life | 2022/03 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further] History |
Enhance participation of the County Government and the government livestock sector at national and county levels in integrated rangeland planning through engagement in AEMP, AET and KWS meetings and activities.
Management Response: [Added: 2021/08/02]
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Partially Accept. Officials of the Livestock Department within the Amboseli landscape were engaged on specific activities for technical support but not as project implementers. Given that livestock rearing is a compatible and complimentary activity to wildlife conservation, the inclusion of the Livestock Department in the project implementation will be ensured. |
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Livestock Department is included as part of the PIC
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2021/12/02] |
• KWS • AET • ACC • MWCT • Big Life | 2021/09 | Completed | AET and the County Government of Kajiado entered into a collaboration agreement. The Livestock Department under the Kajiado County being one of the key departments that will guide the implantation of the AEMP grazing and livestock improvement objective/strategy. Livestock has been included in the PIC. History | |
| Livestock Department engaged as a key stakeholder in the implementation of future projects for alignment with county and national livestock sector development.
[Added: 2021/08/02] [Last Updated: 2022/04/17] |
• KWS • AET • ACC • MWCT • Big Life | 2022/03 | No Longer Applicable |
[Justification: This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further] This activity is dependent on the availability of resources to facilitate coordination activities. Since the project is closed down, the resources are unavailable. UNDP will not pursue this action further History |