Briefing Paper Community Land Registration & Pastoral Livelihoods in Kenya

This briefing paper summarises a report, Community Land Registration in Kenya’s Rangelands: Prospects and Dilemmas for Pastoral Mobility and Resource-Sharing, co-authored by Namati and four pastoralist-led organisations: IMPACT, PWHE, CRDD, and ISID.

The briefing paper discusses key findings from a year-long study of whether and how the registration and titling of land under Kenya’s Community Land Act and Regulations might affect pastoralists’ access to and sharing of resources, especially water and pasture, that are important to pastoral production systems.

The brief calls on duty bearers, communities, and civil society to ensure that the Community Land Act and its Regulations are used to recognise not only community lands, but also the unique, highly specialised resource-governance systems that sustain pastoral communities across Kenya’s vast rangelands.