From Degradation to Regeneration.

Community champions (elders, women and youth) are selected from villages and trained to lead the restoration action. They are responsible for raising awareness, community mobilization and enforcement of community bylaws. Through the model, the champions are allocated a monthly kitty that is managed by them and is used to facilitate their movements and in planning for the community restoration days. Ramat community champions usually meet once a month to plan and reflect on their restoration actions

working closely with chiefs and community elders, community bylaws are developed and adopted at community barazas to protect naturally regenerating trees and sites.

Ramat Champions mobilize their communities (once every month) to take action on their landscape by pruning and managing tree species to allow regeneration or clearing invasive species such as the Prosopis juliflora

to track intervention areas, champions paint the trees to signify managed trees restoration sites. This technique is based on previous successes in the Ndoto landscape and works to inform the wider community of active restoration sites as a form of ‘social fence’ to inform community members of action.