Rangeland Co-design, Knowledge, Engagement and Monitoring

Women harness the benefits of healthy rangelands to generate an income.
Women harness the benefits of healthy rangelands to generate an income. / Photo: Sheila Funnell

Rangeland Co-design, Knowledge, Engagement and Monitoring

  • Our Objective

    Strengthening the governance structures, strategic partnerships, and knowledge systems that connect and guide all projects in Naibunga and Ol Donyiro, creating the conditions for coordinated, lasting impact across the programme.

  • Figures

    The project was launched on February 14, 2022 and is currently in progress.

Summary

This project is the foundation on which the entire Naibunga and Ol Donyiro programme is built. Its core focus is strengthening governance structures, advancing strategic partnerships, and developing the knowledge systems that guide the design, monitoring, and continuous learning of all projects and the connections between them.  A defining feature of the project is its attention to reinforcing feedback loops: the mechanisms that allow systems thinking to be applied effectively to the complex challenges facing these rangelands. By identifying and nurturing these dynamics, the project helps individual initiatives reinforce one another rather than operate in isolation, generating collective outcomes that no single project could achieve alone.  This coordination and learning layer also highlights the Wyss Academy's distinctive contribution in a context where many actors are already engaged. Ultimately, it ensures that innovation, adaptability, and shared learning are woven into everything the programme does. 

Project Connections

  • Part of the topic

    Stewardship

    Stewardship
  • Part of the solutionscape

    Enabling the co-existence of pastoralism and wildlife in semiarid rangelands in an insecure climate

Team

  • Project contact

    Sheila Funnell
    Head of Innovation and Impact

    Sheila Funnell, Head of Innovation and Impact, Wyss Academy for Nature
    Project contact