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To increase political participation of indigenous women in decision making around land management and to implement a new law requiring indigenous people's consent for development projects by social organizing, workshops and forums, and campaigning domestically and internationally.

To support peoples' movements struggling against corporate globalization by providing technical support and developing networks for advocacy to address natural resource rights violations.

To enhance accountability and transparency in the land and forestry sectors through strategic communication, research and documentation.

To improve access, use and protection of water and agricultural systems through trainings, social mobilization and advocacy.

To protect the land tenure of Pygmy communities by convening two meetings with local and administrative authorities to discuss issues affecting land ownership by Pygmy people in two territories; identifying and mapping plots of land that traditionally belong to Pygmies; and advocating with local authoritizes to secure land titles for those who are displaced.

To protect and sustain natural resources by educating communities about forestry management and environmental laws and policies.

To alleviate women's workloads and increase productivity of market gardening through the purchase of one solar pump and training in farming and drip irrigation techniques.

To create community awareness about the natural resource rights guaranteed under Kenya’s new constitution, revive several stalled court cases against the salt mining companies and network with other organizations working on resource rights issues. This grant will also enable MRF to rehabilitate a large parcel of land that the community won in a previous legal action so that it can be used for sustainable livelihood activities. The organization’s long-term goal is to force the salt mining companies to rehabilitate and return illegally acquired land to the community.

To enhance the capacity of Kenya Natural Resources Alliance to coordinate, build the capacity of and elevate the voices of community-based organizations focused on natural resource rights; and to petition the Kenyan parliament to enact a new mining bill that respects the land and mineral rights of indigenous communities. 

To work with the indigenous community of Totogalpa to protect indigenous people's collective rights by strengthening traditional administrative structures, increasing communities' capacity to manage their territory, strengthening participation of youth and women in natural resource rights agendas, and conducting trainings with communities on indigenous people's rights.