Strengthening local community engagement in combating illegal wildlife trade
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £218,666
WHERE Kenya
Summary
This project aims to strengthen community engagement in combating IWT in Kenya. The project partners have developed a Theory of Change (ToC) for different forms of community engagement. This project is intended to ground-truth the causal pathways set out in that ToC, and the assumptions that underpin them, by reviewing existing community engagement initiatives using a modified Situational Crime Prevention (SCP) framework. Lessons learned will be used to develop practical guidance for developing new – or improving existing - community initiatives.
IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihood Specialist Group (SULi), Cottar’s Safari Service, IUCN Species Survival Commission African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG), Big Life Foundation, Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association (KWCA), IIED
Over 600 arrests and more than 500 convictions in wildlife crime since 2017, alongside a decline in ivory trafficking cases and an increase in elephant and rhino populations.
