Nairobi Dam Restoration Talks
On a September morning in Nairobi, our environmental team sat with Power Engineers and Ecologists Without Borders (EcoWB) and mapped the first phase of the Nairobi Dam conservation work — not as a slide deck in a hotel, but as a working conversation about water, waste, and what it costs a neighbourhood when a dam sickens.
From Kibera, you feel the city’s weather in your bones: dust after dry weeks, mud when the rains come, smoke on cold evenings. A healthier dam is not a poster — it is fewer stomach bugs, fewer days parents lose to illness, fewer children missing school because the lane flooded or the water turned.
The talks came a week before the UN Climate Change Summit met in Nairobi — a timely reminder that the headlines are made of local decisions, shovels, budgets, and follow-through.
A line worth carrying
President William Ruto said it plainly: climate action is not a Global North issue or a Global South issue — it is our collective challenge, and it touches all of us. We are not asking for pity; we are building partnerships that can hold.
If you work in water, ecology, or engineering and want to walk the next site visit with us — or fund a community briefing in Kisumu Ndogo — write through etco-kenya.org and ask for the environment desk.
Project Site Visit by Rotary Club of IPSWICH (USA) and Kikuyu (Kenya)
It was a great and engaging day of partnership and learning as we hosted the International Rotary Club of IPSWICH team, led by Environmental Lawyer Chris and his wife, Jane, Former President of Rotary Club of Kikuyu Hon. George Ngotho and Rotarian Yumbya for a visit to our project implementation sites. The visit provided an opportunity to review the project areas on the ground, discuss implementation priorities, and strengthen our shared commitment to sustainable environmental and community development. We also had the opportunity to visit the Nairobi Rivers Commission (NRC), where we were hosted by Commissioner Dr. Loice Kipkorir, a member of the Ngong River Committee. We explored opportunities to strengthen collaboration and align our work with the Nairobi Rivers Commission's Restoration Framework.
Community Capacity Building Training
We are currently participating in the ongoing PROVE (Public Space Governance Research, Observation, Validation and Experimentation) Pilot Programme, a four-month initiative by Public Space Networks (PSN) bringing together 11 community groups from Kamukunji and Korogocho. The programme focuses on strengthening community organizations’ capacity to manage, protect and improve public spaces as well as restoring rivers and it's ecosystems. The ongoing capacity-building training is helping CBOs and community organizations better understand the connection between public spaces, river restoration and ecosystem conservation, while exploring practical approaches and stronger collaboration among communities, government agencies, development partners and other stakeholders.
High Level NRC & Development Partners Meeting
Representing the Ngong River Regeneration Network, I'm having the privilege of attending a high-level breakfast meeting convened by the Nairobi Rivers Commission (NRC) in collaboration with the Kenya Permanent Mission to UN-Habitat. The meeting has brought together Development Partners, Government Agencies, Private Sector representatives, and Community representatives to deliberate on the restoration and sustainable management of Nairobi’s rivers.