Established in 1996 and registered as a non-governmental organization in 2000. MPIDO envisions a just and equitable society that recognize and upholds human rights and the fundamental freedom of indigenous peoples’. As indigenous people in Africa undergo political, economic and social challenges, MPIDO curves her niche into pursuing Livelihoods, climate change intervention, mitigation and adaptation; governance and conflict resolution, natural resource management; Gender, women and youth empowernment responses targeting all pastoralists, hunter and gatherer communities. Through years of expertise and experience, Mpido now serves the marginalized needs of all Indigenous peoples at a Pan african and Global Stage.
Pan-African FCPF Capacity Building Program on REDD+ Project to Forest-Dependent IPs
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•Cattle Dips
•Cattle crushes
•Para-vets training and equipping
Indigenous peoples have developed unique livelihood strategies, tailored to the specific ecosystems they inhabit. Their knowledge and practices are key to the sustainable
Indigenous peoples are organizing and responding to climate change in a variety of ways. At community level, indigenous
Considering the situation described above, indigenous peoples’ situation in the context of climate change needs to be addressed from a human rights framework.
The associated national network in Kenya is the Indigenous Peoples National Steering Committee on Climate Change (IPNSCCC)
To advocate for the improvement of Maasai child Enrolment and retention in schools in the focus area
To advocate against harmful cultural practices e.g. FGM, early circumcision of boys, early marriages and child labor
To reduce the community vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections
To integrate and mainstream HIV/AIDS in all programs in the area of focus
To develop community capacity to provide care and support and establish linkages
To improve the livelihood of women and youth in the area of focus
To build the capacity of women and youth
Kenyan National Network - IPNSCCC -
Indigenous Peoples National Steering Committee on Climate Change. A National Steering Committee on Climate Change (NSCCC) mandated to coordinate and mobilize Kenyan IP’s in their efforts to address local climate change realities and challenges by ensuring the full and effective participation of IPs at national, regional and global climate change mechanisms and processes.
IIPFCC
International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change.The Caucus for IPs participating in the UNFCCC processes. The IIPFCC represents the IP Caucus members who are present/attending the official UNFCCC COPs and intersessional sessions of the SBSTA/SBI bodies in between COPs
Kenya Land Alliance
Established to create an institutional mechanism to advocate for enabling land laws and policies in order to ensure secure and equitable access to land and natural resources in Kenya
Kenya Climate Change Working Group.
Formed in April 2009, bringing together various civil society organizations and donor partners in Kenya, for a united front in confronting the causes and effects of climate change in broad and specific terms in Kenya, Africa, and elsewhere where their contribution would be needed.
Kenya Pastoralists network.
An advocacy platform established to conglomeration over 60 pastoralists’ individuals/activists, NGOs and CBOs and non-pastoralist institutions and individuals supporting pastoralists’ development process in Kenya. It draws its membership from North Rift, South Rift, North Eastern and Upper Eastern regions of Kenya representing 14 pastoralist Counties
African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights.
A quasi-judicial body tasked with promoting and protecting human rights and collective (peoples') rights throughout the African continent; interpreting the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and considering individual complaints of violations
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"Once you exclude any part of society, whatever action you do will be partial and ineffective" Joseph Ole Simel - MPIDO Director
A just and equitable society that recognizes and upholds human rights and the fundamental freedom of indigenous people
For over a decade, MPIDO continues to respond to the natural resource management (NRM) needs of the poor and marginalized communities in Kajiado, Narok, and Nakuru and Baringo counties through community mobilization and establishment of resource centers, civic education and training of paralegals and through public interest litigation, management committees including land and water resources, policy advocacy at local and national level.
Major support for this program has been through the IWGIA with funding received for the last 9 years.
MPIDO has been in forefront in advocating for various climate change interventions within the Indigenous Peoples territories by organizing various global events thus ensuring key participation of indigenous peoples nationally, regionally and globally.
MPIDO has always had its delegation in the UNFCCC meetings since Cop 15 in Copenhagen to date, organized and facilitated the Pan African Indigenous Peoples Dialogue with the FCPF’s World Bank in Arusha, Tanzania; the African Regional Preparatory meeting to the WCIP 2014 that was held in Nairobi, Kenya and the Africa Strategic Workshop to the World conference in preparation to WCIP.
Through her role at the Global Steering Committee on IPs Issues to the UNFCCC processes, MPIDO has ensure appropriate participation of African IPs through the IIPFCC Pavilion since COP 21 to date.
•Training EWS(Early Warning System) Monitors
•Supporting monthly data collection
•Production of Maa bulletins
•Community training on EWS and contingency planning
•And making of community contingency plan
•Emergency response i.e. water trucking and food aid.
•Construction of Dams
•De-silting and rehabilitation of Dams
•Drilling of Boreholes
•Rehabilitation of strategic boreholes (are preserved for drought seasons)
•Capacity building water management committees (WMC)
•Hygiene and sanitation e.g. construction of bathrooms and toilets
•Gender mainstreaming in i.e. in various committees
•Environmental conservation e.g. planting of trees around water points
MPIDO also did manage to source funds from the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership in regards to the capacity building of indigenous Peoples on Forests.This project was managed by MPIDO through an Indigenous Peoples Network called Indigenous Peoples National Steering Committee on Climate Change(IPNSCC).This project emanated around doing different studies in the 7 regions that are occupied by indigenous Peoples in Kenya.The studies that were undertaken in this research were
Indigenous peoples have developed unique livelihood strategies, tailored to the specific ecosystems they inhabit. Their knowledge and practices are key to the sustainable management and use of renewable natural resources. While many indigenous peoples live a “low-carbon” lifestyle, they are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change since they direct depend on natural resource and thus their ecosystems. Adverse impacts of climate change disrupt their productive cycles, affect food and water security, lead to deteriorating health, and undermine cultural practices, institutions and social cohesion.
At the same time, indigenous peoples in the two target countries, like elsewhere in the world, are disproportionately affected by poverty, are the least educated, are marginalized in terms of political participation and decision-making, their traditional livelihood practices are met with restrictions, their rights to lands and resources are not recognized and they are facing severe human rights violations, especially when trying to mobilize themselves to address all these issues. In Kenya and Tanzania, indigenous peoples are not recognized, which adds to their vulnerability and the no recognition of their rights. The impact of climate change, when not properly addressed, leads to disruption of traditional livelihoods and irreversible loss of traditional and cultural resources that constitute invaluable contributions to climate change mitigation and adaptation. There are already numerous examples from Kenya and Tanzania proving the negative effects of climate change and the mainstream actions taken against it (see below).
A recent study by UNEP and IUCN notes: “One of the key challenges around dry land Development and pastoralism has been the deeply entrenched prejudice that pastoralism is primitive, unviable and outmoded. More than two decades of research has provided evidence for the opposite perspective; pastoralism as economically rational and viable, and as a vital tool for large-scale conservation and ecosystem management.”
Considering the situation described above, indigenous peoples’ situation in the context of climate change needs to be addressed from a human rights framework. A human rights based approach to climate change must adhere to the principles that:
Impacts of climate change must be understood in the wider context of human rights concerns and pressing social, cultural, economic and political barriers that indigenous peoples face. These multiple and interlinked barriers erode adaptive capacity, community resilience and challenge the abilities of indigenous peoples to respond, cope with, and adapt to environmental changes. Key issues are promotion and respect for the land and resource rights of indigenous peoples, strengthening of their sustainable resource management systems, ensuring equitable benefit sharing and full and effective participation in decision-making processes, in accordance with their right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC). Unless such fundamental human rights are observed, climate change mitigation and adaptation measures will have a high risk of further undermining the already vulnerable situation of indigenous peoples
The associated national network in Kenya is the Indigenous Peoples National Steering Committee on Climate Change (IPNSCCC). In 2010, indigenous peoples of Kenya formulated a common National Climate Change Response Strategy (Annex G). The establishment of IPNSCCC was a result of that strategy formulation process.
The IPNSCCC mission is to mobilize, monitor and coordinate indigenous peoples’ participation in climate change processes at national and global levels, and to work closely with communities at the grassroots level in designing strategies and generating resources to support adaptation and mitigation actions. The Climate Change Strategy defines the objectives of the IPNSCCC and a work plan for 2010-2015. The IPNSCCC has 27 indigenous member organizations and an executive board. Members of the IPNSCCC are part of the Kenyan National Climate Change Committee and have been part of the official State delegation to the UNFCCC since 2009.
A National Lead Agency acts as a Secretariat for the activities of the IPNSCCC. This secretariat position has so far been held by Manyioto Pastoralist Indigenous Development Organisation (MPIDO), based in Nairobi. MPIDO has played a crucial role in coordinating climate change activities at the national level, and it has participated extensively in international UNFCCC Meetings. MPIDO has been project partner under IWGIA’s REDD+ project (mentioned above). An IWGIA project monitoring report from 2013 was positive of MPIDOs work on climate change and provided clear recommendations to continue working on the issue in Kenya. IWGIA and MPIDO have had close collaboration since 2006, and IWGIA has rendered support to MPIDO for a large land rights project and for carrying out extensive international advocacy work.
Members of IPNSCCC that are IWGIA partners are:
To advocate for the improvement of Maasai child Enrollment and retention in schools in the focus area
To advocate against harmful cultural practices e.g. FGM, early circumcision of boys, early marriages and child labor
Strengthen and improve performance among schools in the area.
To reduce the community vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections
To integrate and mainstream HIV/AIDS in all programs in the area of focus
To develop community capacity to provide care and support and establish linkages with relevant institutions and agencies
To improve the livelihood of women and youth in the area of focus
To build the capacity of women and youth to effectively participated and engage in development activities