Conservation Key Milestones

WAY BEFORE!

1974

Lake Bogoria National Reserves gazetted and listed as a Ramsar site.

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2001

Lake Baringo listed as an Important Bird Area and a Ramsar site.

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2002

First conservancy established (Ngenyin and Kaptuya)

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2013

WWF wetland project promoted adoption of Conservancies

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2014

Baringo county government Finance Regulation on conservancies passed by county assembly opening funding opportunities for Conservancies

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2015

First conservancy receives first grant from Baringo County Government

Baringo conservancies was originally part of Rift Lakes Conservancies Association.

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2016

Knowledge building on conservancies concept, and laws supporting conservancies carried out by KWCA

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2017

BCCA registered as an Association

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2018

BCCA secures 1st grant from GEF UNDP SGP, through KWCA to support governance capacity development

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2019

BCCA holds its first AGM

UNDP SGP phase VI launches the Lake Bogoria landscape project fund benefiting ,BCCA, 3 Lake Bogoria landscape conservancies, among others.

MOU between Baringo County Government and Northern Rangelands Trust to support Conservancy Development.

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2020

BCCA First strategic plan developed

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PRESENT

Baringo County Conservancies Association (BCCA) was registered in 2017 as a landscape level membership organization for community conservancies in Baringo County.