Advancing IPLC-Led Transformation Through Rights, Knowledge, and Research.
Grounding change in Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ rights, research, and transformative learning systems.
About Us.
Laikipia North Community Conservation Initiative (LANCCI) is a community-led organization working to strengthen the relationship between people, landscapes, and natural systems across pastoral and Indigenous territories. Established in May 2019 and formally registered in September 2021 under the Ministry of Labour and Social Services as a Community-Based Organisation, LANCCI was founded from a growing recognition that the future of rangelands and ecosystems depends on the communities who have lived with, managed, and protected them for generations.
Our work emerged from the realities facing many pastoral and Indigenous landscapes today — increasing climate pressures, biodiversity loss, land fragmentation, weakening customary governance systems, shrinking livelihood opportunities, and growing conflict over natural resources. At the same time, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs), despite holding deep ecological knowledge and long-standing stewardship systems, are often excluded from decisions shaping their lands and futures.
LANCCI exists to help bridge this gap by advancing community-led approaches that place local knowledge, collective rights, ecological balance, and lived realities at the center of landscape governance and sustainability.
We believe that resilient landscapes cannot be achieved through conservation alone. Healthy ecosystems are deeply connected to secure land rights, inclusive governance, peaceful coexistence, resilient livelihoods, and strong knowledge systems. For this reason, our work takes an integrated landscape approach that recognizes the interdependence between land, water, biodiversity, livestock, wildlife, mobility, culture, and community wellbeing.
Our Mission & Vision.
To support Indigenous people and local communities to create an enabling environment that conserves their indigenous habitat in the midst of changing global climate conditions.
A sustainable, bio-diverse, resilient environment that enables Indigenous people to advance their livelihoods and food systems while conserving flora and fauna.
Our Core Values.
Environmental Stewardship
Every decision weighed against its impact on the land and the life it sustains.
Transparency
Open processes, honest reporting, and accountability to the communities we serve.
Innovation
Blending indigenous knowledge with adaptive practices to solve emerging challenges.
Sustainability
Building systems that endure beyond any single program or funding cycle.
Our Key Focus Areas.
Inclusive Livelihoods & Sustainable Green Economies
We support livelihood systems that are ecologically sustainable, locally grounded, and inclusive — particularly for women and youth — while promoting green economic opportunities connected to healthy landscapes.
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Peacebuilding & Human–Nature Coexistence
We promote peaceful coexistence between communities, wildlife, and shared natural resources by strengthening dialogue, resource-sharing systems, conflict prevention mechanisms, and local peacebuilding structures.
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Knowledge Systems, Research & Transformative Learning
We work to connect Indigenous knowledge, participatory research, and transformative learning processes to generate evidence, strengthen local knowledge systems, and guide landscape action and policy.
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Landscape Governance, IPLCs Rights & Environmental Justice
We support fair and inclusive systems for managing land, water, and shared natural resources while strengthening Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ rights, customary governance structures, and environmental justice
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Climate Resilience & Biodiversity Protection
We work with communities to restore degraded ecosystems, protect biodiversity, rehabilitate critical landscapes and water systems, and strengthen climate resilience through nature-based and community-led approaches.
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Our partners.
