Enhancing Communities' Resilience

To build resilience and reduce vulnerability among pastoral communities through appropriate strategies that enhances sustainable development.

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Our Mission

To build resilience and reduce vulnerability among pastoral communities through appropriate strategies that enhances sustainable development.

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Years Strengthening Pastoralist Resilience

Improved Shallow Wells

Self-Help Groups Supported

Scholarships Awarded

PISP community engagement in Marsabit County

30+ yrs

of community-led programming in Marsabit County

Who We Are

Locally rooted, community-led, accountable at every level.

PISP engages community members and strengthens local institutions to improve their social, economic and environmental resilience — through inclusive community empowerment, local capacity building, strategic institutional linkages, and community-driven, community-owned development.

Registered indigenous, non-partisan nonprofit since 1996
Community-driven, community-owned development approach
Transparent and accountable resource management

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What We Do

Four integrated programmes, one goal: lasting resilience.

From water and sanitation to peace building, our work spans the full arc of community resilience in Marsabit County.

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Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)

A pioneer in rainwater harvesting technologies in Northern Kenya.

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Climate Action, Drought Management, Livelihoods & Resilience

Building resilience to a changing climate in the drylands.

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Leadership, Governance & Development

Pro-poor policy, good governance, and access to education.

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Security, Peace Building, Conflict Prevention & Recovery

Trust-building and harmonious co-existence between communities.

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Featured Projects

Where the work is happening right now.

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Climate Action, Drought Management, Livelihoods & Resilience

Emergency Response for Flood Affected Communities in Marsabit County

The project aims to save lives and provide urgent humanitarian assistance to vulnerable households affected by flooding in North Horr Sub-County, Marsabit County.

Marsabit, Kenya

Climate Action, Drought Management, Livelihoods & Resilience

Building Climate-Resilient Pastoralist Communities in Shurr Conservancy

The project aims to strengthen climate resilience and sustainable livelihoods among the Shur community in Shurr Conservancy, Marsabit County, through community-led natural resource management, climate justice, pastoralist rights, and gender inclusion.

Marsabit, Kenya

Climate Action, Drought Management, Livelihoods & Resilience

Marsabit Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Project (MCCARP)

Building the climate resilience and livelihoods of pastoralist households in Laisamis and North Horr through Pastoralist Field Schools and Village Community Banking groups.

Marsabit, Kenya

Leadership, Governance & Development

TCF-Funded Community Land Registration Programme – North Horr and Dukana, Marsabit County

Funded by The Christensen Fund (TCF), the Community Land Registration Programme in North Horr and Dukana, Marsabit County, seeks to strengthen community land rights, promote inclusive land governance, and support the sustainable management of communal land and natural resources.

Marsabit, Kenya

Leadership, Governance & Development

Community Land Registration and Sustainable Natural Resource Governance in the Sibiloi Ecosystem

Supporting communities in North Horr, Dukana, and Illeret to secure their communal land rights and strengthen community-led governance of land and natural resources in the Sibiloi ecosystem.

Marsabit, Kenya