Conservation and Management Strategy for the Elephant in Kenya

54 CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR THE ELEPHANT IN KENYA
Target Action Timeline Actors Indicators
5.3 More sustainable
compensation,
consolation and
insurance mechanisms
against losses from
elephant damage
trialled and if
successful
implemented.
5.3.3 Encourage stakeholder participation
in Elephant Consolation Schemes where
appropriate.
5.3.4 Investigate more sustainable
approaches such as environmental risk
insurance schemes, locally-based rural
conservancy compensation schemes
and micro-finance approaches to
diversify local livelihoods and support
implementation.
Ongoing
2013
onwards
KWS, relevant
stakeholders/partners
KWS, rural development
agencies, relevant
stakeholders / partners
• Number of
effective consolation
schemes in place
• Cost / benefit
analyses with
reports
• Number of
schemes
tried and
implemented
• Assessment reports
5.4.1 Identify existing unprotected
elephant range located in arid or
semi-arid areas.
End of
2012
KWS
• Map and published
report, number of
hectares
5.4.2 Identify existing land-tenure, land
governance entities and key leaders
within these elephant range areas.
End of
2012
KWS, relevant
stakeholders / partners,
relevant GOK ministries
• Map and published
report, database
developed and
functional
5.4 At least 30% of
existing unprotected
elephant range in arid
or semi-arid lands
is protected
under community
conservation
governance structures.
5.4.3 Encourage and support the creation
of representative community conservation
entities and associated conservancies
within unprotected elephant range areas.
5.4.4 Develop work plans and budgets
for management of community
conservation areas.
End of
2014
End of
2015
KWS, relevant
stakeholders / partners,
local communities
KWS, relevant
stakeholders / partners,
community conservancies
• Number of legal
entities registered
and functioning
• Number of plans
and budgets
developed and
implemented
5.4.5 Establish agreements with
investors, donors and conservation
NGOs to provide management,
governance, technical and financial
support to conservancies.
End of
2017
KWS, relevant
stakeholders / partners,
donors, private sector
investors, tourist
operators
• Number of
agreements,
number of
community
conservancies
receiving
support
5.4.6 Provide training for effective
conservancy management (security,
ecological monitoring, fundraising,
grazing management, accounting,
governance etc.).
End of
2019
KWS, relevant
stakeholders / partners
• Number of
training courses
and feedback,
attendance
lists, formal
certificates,
database developed
and functional,
conservancies
managed like PAs
5.5 Improved livestock
management, grazing
systems, optimal cattle
densities and market
penetration among
pastoralist occupied
parts of Kenya’s
elephant range.
5.5.1 Review and trial management
interventions for rangeland rehabilitation
that are acceptable to and can be
supported by pastoralists.
End of
2014
KWS, research
organisations
(International Livestock
Research Institute - ILRI),
relevant ministries
• Published results
from review and
trials, demonstration
plots mapped out,
number of hectares