Country:

Kenya

Date:

2016

Implementor:

ILEPA

Funding Amount:

24,550

Details:

Following ILEPA’s advocacy efforts and a series of community consultations, the National Land Commission (NLC) and Ministry of Lands halted the illegal acquisition of land on the Maji Moto Group Ranch (MMGR), returning land titles to their rightful owners. Group ranch officials who had engaged in illegal land acquisition were suspended, and a peaceful change of leadership took place. Ranch officials had been misappropriating funds from an account accruing revenue from a trust deed, and the account has thus been frozen, with plans to redistribute funds to community members. In addition to intensive advocacy efforts and community consultations, ILEPA engaged robustly with the NLC and the Ministry of Lands to reach this resolution, ultimately transforming the machinery of government institutions to speak the voice of communities and, in the process, restoring a sense of agency to the MMGR members.