IMPACT_KENYA

Join us for these two key conversations today at :

🔹 Rio Changemakers for Africa: Aligning Finance with Local Stewardship
🕥 10:30 AM EAT | 6 May 2026

🔹Beyond Resilience: Wellbeing & Prosperity for Pastoralists and Rangelands
🕞 3:30 – 4:30 PM EAT | 6 May 2026

We’ll be exploring urgent questions on how finance can better reflect local realities, and what true wellbeing and prosperity mean in rangeland systems.

As we mark , these conversations highlight the vital role of pastoralist systems in sustaining ecosystems, economies, and cultures.

👉 Join us online or in person and be part of the change.

IMPACT Kenya works at multiple levels, from grassroot community-led actions and advancing this to global levels for structural change geared at amplifying Indigenous Peoples' voices by showcasing best practices. The 25th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) begins today, and we will be co-organizing 4 side events during this session.

➡️ April 23 | 12:00 – 14:00 (Jay Suites): Many Peoples, One Planet — Shaping the GEF’s road ahead for Indigenous-led conservation.

➡️ April 23 | 12:00 – 14:00 (Jay Suites): Short Course Launch — Introducing our new Certificate Course on Rights-Based Conservation with the University of Nairobi.

➡️ April 24 | 16:30 – 17:45 (UN HQ, CR-8): Rights to Lands & Mobility — Celebrating the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists.

➡️ April 28 | 10:00 – 11:00 EST (Online): Planetary & Indigenous Health — A virtual dialogue on health through a rights-based lens.

Spaces like these remind us that lasting solutions must be rooted in the voices and leadership of Indigenous Peoples.

If you are in New York for this 25th session of , we would love to connect with you: you are invited to come join us!

Register to join us: https://surl.li/bowzmg

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