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Report: Strengthening the faith-based working group
April 2023
Faith groups have an important role to play in restoring landscapes, however there is currently a gap in both in the land restoration agenda and in the vision of faith organisations.
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February 2025
Growing and protecting church forests in Ethiopiy
February 2025 | Ethiopia
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. ”.
Faith-based land restoration in Kenya
April 2022
What is the role of faith in land restoration? Can religious leaders foster regreening? Can faith communities catalyse the spread of farmer-managed natural regeneration?
Empowered World View Training
in Elgeyo Marakwet
June 2022
In June 2022 OikoDiplomatique teamed up with World Vision's Empowered World View (EWV) program to train faith and community leaders as well as environmental specialists working around land restoration.
April 2025
Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)
8th-9th Aprily 2025 | Isiolo 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
May 2023
Caring for the Earth - Transforming Lives: Linking Faith and Natural Regeneration
12th May 2023 | Visser't Hooft Hall, Ecumenical Center, Geneva
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. The event brought together the Holy Trinity Sisters, a congregation of Catholic 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.
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?
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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