P.O. Box 293
Molo
Tel: 051 721537
Mobile:0722 393017
Contact: Mr Clement K. Kariuki

Land is an important and very passionate issue in East Africa and has been the cause of many conflicts and civil war. The Mau Community Forest Association (MACOFA) is an umbrella organization for registered, organized groups adjacent to Mau Forest complex who are involved in environment and natural resource management. It is a member of National Alliance of Community Forest Associations (NAOFA).

As a major player in lobbying, advocacy and management of farmers groups in Kenya, KENFAP looks for partnership with strong international organizations having interests in land policy issues to assist in land policy education campaigns in East Africa through the East Africa Farmers' Federation, in cooperation with The Center for Enterprises Development and Training (CEDAT), the most important factor after that of labour.

Community Empowerment Facility

Community Empowerment and Institutional Building

To give capacity to civil-society land policy stakeholders to voice and lobby on land policy matters and influence national and local government authorities and legislative institutions. In particular, to restore and sustain the Mau Forest Complex by creating an ecosystem sustaining the economic, ecological and social needs of the Community and the watershed as a whole.

To mobilize and involve the communities adjacent to Mau Forest Complex in management and conservation of natural resources to achieve maximum benefits.

• To coordinate the activities of its members by building individual and collective group capacity in terms of leadership, resource management, information sharing and training.
• To create a strong and reliable partnership with other like minded institutions and the government, through the Forest Department (FD) in co-managing forests within Mau Forest complex - as provided for in Forest Bill 2004 and Environmental Management and Coordination Act (EMCA).
• To explore other areas that would enhance maximum benefits for the association and individual group members.

Community groups and individual farmers.