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February 2025
World Wetlands Day
3rd February 2025 | Kilifi County, Kenya
Kakamega Forest: a Sanctuary for People and Nature
February 2025
Kakamega Forest, Kenya’s last remaining tropical rainforest, is a vital ecosystem under threat. OikoDiplomatique recently explored this biodiversity hotspot to assess restoration opportunities. Our visit highlighted the power of faith-driven conservation, community engagement, and sustainable restoration led by groups like Tembelea Kanisa Intiative.
Keynote: Strengthening the faith-based working group
April 2023
Keynote speaker Rev Dr Sam Kobia shared his advice and encouragement to the participants in plenary “... we have a burden of history because we know the reasons for climate change and we know that if we don’t do certain things, the earth and environment will degrade. ”.
World Environment Day 2025 Beat Plastic Pollution
June 2025
The 2025 World Environment Day theme “Beat Plastic Pollution” is particularly relevant for coastal areas like Kilifi where plastic pollution is clearly visible in creeks and degraded mangroves, underscoring the critical need for action. To commemorate the day, Oikodiplomatique, along with other faith based action groups, took part in cleanup initiative at a Kilifi Creek..
FMNR in Action: A Visit to Mr Lesokoyo’s 50-Acre Farm
April 2025
To enhance and ensure the success of FMNR, certain practical capacities are necessary. OikoDiplomatique therefore followed the FMNR training at IHTS with practical and technical support including a learning visit to a fully sustainable farm where FMNR, innovation and creativity are successfully employed with benefits for the household and surrounding community while increasing resilience to climate change.
June 2025
World Environment Day 2025 Beat Plastic Pollution
June 2025 | Kilifi County, Kenya
Sept 2024
Faith in Mangrove Restoration
11th - 12th September 2024 | Sai Rock Hotel, Mombasa, Kenya
Preventive diplomacy for Lands Restoration and Conservancy of Nature
At OIKOdiplomatique we offer hands-on consultancy services through climate, environment and peace envoys and the identified cadres of practitioners who possess the necessary skills and knowledge to undertake missions to places and situations that need peacebuilding, peacemaking and conflict resolution.
Welcome To OIKOdiplomatique: Adding ethical value to advocacy and diplomacy
Report: Faith in Mangrove Restoration
September 2024
OikoDiplomatique, in collaboration with Minda Trust and Kwetu Training Centre held a workshop in Kilifi County, Kenya, to explores the significant impact faith communities can have in revitalising essential mangrove ecosystems. Mangrove forests are an important source of livelihood for many coastal communities in Kenya.
Report: Isiolo Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) training
April 2025
OikoDiplomatique travelled to Isiolo County in northern Kenya to facilitate a unique training on Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration that brought together the Institute of the Holy Trinity Sisters and experts from World Vision. It was more than a workshop--it was a meaningful meeting of minds where faith and science came together to imagine new possibilities for restoring both land and community.
Reflections from a pre-COP30 interfaith dialogue: Empowering Faith Actors to Strengthen Climate Resilience in Kenya
October 2025
As the world prepares for COP30, faith and philosophy, science and activism converged in Nairobi to forge collaboration and to ask what moral courage looks like in the face of climate change. Held at the University of Nairobi and convened by OikoDiplomatique in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, the hybrid dialogue drew over 80 participants from all continents; from faith leaders and academics to negotiators, scientists and youth, united by a shared conviction that ethics, equity and justice must guide climate action.
February 2025
Growing and protecting church forests in Ethiopia
February 2025 | Ethiopia
October 2025
Empowering Faith Actors to Strengthen Climate Resilience in Kenya
(A Pre-COP30 Dialogue)
22 October 2025 | Nairobi, Kenya + Online
Visit: Growing and protecting church forests in Ethiopia
February 2025
OikoDiplomatique, hosted by EOC-DICAC, visited Ethiopia’s Church Forests to explore how faith-based conservation is preserving biodiversity and sustaining local communities. With 35,000 Church Forests, could this be a model for Kenya and beyond?
April 2025
Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)
8th-9th Aprily 2025 | Isiolo County, Kenya
Event: World Wetlands Day
February 2025
OikoDiplomatique proudly partnered with the County Government of Kilifi to organize and host the annual World Wetlands Day celebration on 3rd February 2025 in Mtwapa, Kilifi County. The special day has been observed globally since 1971 to bring awareness about the benefits of wetlands and encourage solutions to the challenges facing the wet soil areas.
April 2023
Strengthening the faith-based
land restoration working group
One Day Meeting and Learning Visit
25th April 2023 | CIFOR/ICRAF, Gigiri, Nairobi
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Nakuru Workshop Strengthens Kenya’s Faith-Based Restoration Movement
July 2025
From 27–29 July 2025, Nakuru became a meeting point for faith leaders, cultural custodians, and community restoration champions from across Kenya. The Faith-Based Land Restoration and Conservation Workshop, convened by OikoDiplomatique, brought together a diverse network committed to healing both land and livelihoods through the moral authority of faith.
Latest Event
July 2025
Faith-Based Land Restoration and Conservation Workshop
July 2025 | Nakuru County, Kenya