TUBAE- Turkana Bio Aloe Organization (TUBAE)

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TUBAE- Turkana Bio Aloe Organization (TUBAE)

• Operations in Turkana County
• By Eliud Emeri (Programme Manager NRM Peace
  building officer) presented on 28th August,2012
  at Sasame guest house, Lodwar

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Content

• Organization history
• Thematic areas
• Thematic components
• Areas of operation
• Natural resource management and conflict in
  Northern Kenya
• Organization achievements and challenges
• Proposed organization plans

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TUBAE VISION

• An independent society that is able to sustain
  itself with minimal external reliance

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PHILOSOPHY

• Institution promoting sustainable exploitation
  of natural resources to alleviate poverty

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GOAL

• To empower the Turkana communities on the
  importance of environmental conservation coupled
  with sustainable exploitation of valuable natural
  resources, engage in demand for justice and
  respect to humanity.

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MISSION STATEMENT

• Mobilize the poor and marginalized turkana
  communities on importance of good governance,
  respect of humanity and realization of justice in
  order to sustainably exploit and conserve natural
  resources through enhanced capacities and market
  driven approaches for economic empowerment aimed
  at alleviating poverty.

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OBJECTIVES

• To empower and support local initiatives aimed at
  promoting democratic governance and reforms
• To enhance a market-driven approaches to dry
  land products aimed at economic empowerment of
  vulnerable groups to alleviate poverty through
  adoption of alternative livelihoods by local
  communities
• Promote advocacy issues pertaining environmental
  governance and Natural resource management
• To promote and build the capacity of the local
  people to be able to engage, demand and
  sustainability of rule of law to all through
  access to justice and human rights education

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TUBAE History

• Status CBO and in advance stages is waiting for
  acknowledgment from registrar of societies as
  TRUST. TUBAE operates in Turkana and intends to
  extend to Pokot, Elgeyo marakwet, Marsabit
  Counties and on cross border to Ethiopia, South
  Sudan and Uganda.
• Our offices Head office based in Lodwar town at
  Lodwar Post office (Telecom Building), Sub
  offices Turkana South at Kalemungorok centre
  (World vision Building)

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Transition

• 1998 Juluk riverine association (vegetable
  group)
• 2000 TURIPO (Turkwell Riverine Project
  Organization) covered Kaputir location and in
  2004 extended to Kalemungorok introduced
  industrial production and value addition to NRM
• 2006 TUBAE (Turkana Bio Aloe Organization)
  umbrella of Aloe management units in entire
  Turkana districts
• 2012 Trust (rebranded as The African
  Marginalized Groups Defenders Trust - TAMAGDET)

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TUBAE programmes

• TUBAE THEMATIC AREAS
• Governance advocacy
• Natural resource management
• Education counseling
• WASH Water, Sanitation Health
• Disaster Risk Response (DRR)
• Livelihoods option Food security

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Governance advocacy

• Civic and voter education
• Human rights and access to justice
• Land rights
• Natural resource exploitation, production and
  environmental assessments
• Eviction and community compensation

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Natural Resource Management (NRM)

• Afforestation
• Environmental conservation and protection
• Environmental community policing
• Sustainable exploitation of valuable resources
• Research and development
• Technology transfer set demonstration centre
• Value addition
• Market and market access of dry lands products
• Training on NRM management and policies
• Rural road access to Loima forest

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Education counseling

• Community awareness on educational policies and
  governance
• Schools instructional materials (IM) supply to
  vulnerable rural schools
• Support and training of Para teachers i.e. Work
  Experience Teacher (WET) to schools to address
  shortage of teachers
• Vocational training to youth and women
• Establishment of learning resource centre that is
  IT (Information Technology) compliant
• Counseling of Girls, ladies dropped out of school
  and Vulnerable groups in the society
• Carrier development and growth

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WASH- Water, Sanitation Health

• Water
• Training of water users groups water management
• Improve water harvesting methods construct water
  jars to 3 schools and 1 dispensary
• Dig 3 shallow wells and 1 improved shallow well
• Construction of water pan

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WASH Sanitation Health

• Supply of clean and safe water
• Pit latrines and dust bins
• Waste and cabbage disposal
• Health education
• Supply of sanitary to rural vulnerable schools
• Nutritional education
• Disease control i.e. preventive and curative
  measures
• Reproductive health
• Support and establishment of school community
  health clubs/ Associations

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Disaster Risk Response

• Disaster management and response as result of
  Climate change natural phenomena famine,
  drought, floods, winds, hunger starvation
• Peace building mitigative measures
• Conflict transformation
• Climate change issues
• Early warning systems
• Consultative forums
• Talent shows and peaceful co-existence
• Adoption of viable technologies as mitigative
  measures to disasters

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Livelihoods and Food security

• Support irrigation schemes to enhance food
  production
• Bee and horticultural farming
• Value addition i.e. industrial production Aloe
  cottage industries (3 Turkana County) and
  Proposed Honey processing unit at Kalemungorok
• Food security education
• Economic empowerment and diversification
• Market and market access to produce

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TUBAE current areas of operation
District Programme Activity (ies)
Turkana West- Kakuma, Letea, Oropoi, Nakururum, Lopiding Napopongoit NRM WASH Aloe gum production, afforestation Water jars 2 schools
Turkana North - Lapur Governance advocacy Civic/ voter education Peace building
Loima Lobei, Lorengkippi, Loima forest NRM Aloe gum production, afforestation Road rehabilitation to Loima forest
Turkana Central Central division Governance advocacy Civic/ voter education Peace building
Turkana South NRM WASH Value addition to Aloe honey, marketing, afforestation Water jars, water pan, shallow wells
Governance advocacy Livelihoods food security Education counseling Civic/ voter education Peace building Scheme rehabilitation horticultural farming Learning resource centre and supply of equipment
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Development partners (supporting agencies)
Partner component Allocation Areas targeted Project period
CDTF-CEF (Community development trust fund) NRM, WASH, DRR, Livelihoods Food security Kshs. 27,439,257.00 3 Districts South, Loima West 3 years (8th Feb,2012 7th Jan 2015)
UNDP-K Amkeni waKenya Governance advocacy Kshs. 1,245,000.00 3 North, Central South 6th Months 15th Aug,2012 Jan, 2013
PRAGYA - India Education and Counseling Kshs. 88,800.00 South district 3 months July Sept, 2012 (implemented quarterly)
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Partners associates in projects implementation

• Partners
• SAPCONE- Governance (UNDP, KCDF), NRM- Land
  rights, Education DRR
• NRM Apad (policy development) not formal under
  way
• LWF (Turkana project) Aloe propagation and
  value addition
• KARMA Kaputir Resource Management Association
  (Turkana south)
• NADO Nakwalele Development Organization
  (Turkana central)
• DLMC District Livestock Marketing Council
  governance Loima and NRM in Central

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Associates in projects implementation

• These are government departments relevant to the
  projects
• MOA- Ministry of Agriculture
• KFS Kenya Forest Service
• KEFRI Kenya Forestry Research Institute
• KWS Kenya Wildlife Service
• DSDO District Social Development Office
• DTO District Trade Office
• NEMA National Environment Management Authority

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Cooperate members

• Aloe management units (AMU)- 39 entire Turkana
  County
• Women Youth groups
• Pastoralists and Peasants
• Private sector
• Special interest groups (e.g. people with
  disabilities, poor people, women, children in
  distress, etc.)
• Learning institutions

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Natural resource management and conflict in
Turkana South District

• Key issues
• Land
• Governance
• Livelihoods and food security
• Disaster risk response

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Land

• 1. Land disputes- boundary where Pokot have
  encroached with creation of new administrative
  units, Kainuk division
• 2. Natural resource exploitation Oil and gas
  exploration no community involvement

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Governance

1. Poor governance has no development agenda and
   not people driven
2. State institution not executing their roles as
   expected thus high insecurity with rampant loss
   of lives and property, displacement of persons
   and eviction thus many areas deserted
3. Local community participation and involvement due
   to low capacities
4. Development actors poor strategies in dev
   implementation
5. Ignorance to invest in Research and development
6. Poor leadership with pathetic infrastructure has
   hindered investments opportunities (roads no
   communication in 60 0f the County )

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Livelihoods and food security

• Low diversification on better livelihoods option
  to nomadic lifestyles
• Availability of arable land to support farming
  i.e. existence of irrigation schemes along river
  Turkwell Kainuk , Loyapat, Nakwamoru, Kapelibok,
  Juluk, Nawoyaregae, Katilu and Lokapel.
• Valuable natural resources Aloe, resin, gum
  Arabica, incense, oil and gas, gold, gypsum to
  name but a few,
• Willingness of population to practice agriculture
• Value addition to Aloe, basketry, honey and
  livestock products

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Disaster risk response

1. Drought and famine
2. Hunger and starvation
3. Floods
4. Out break of diseases
5. Conflict result in loss of land, lives and
   property

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Cont.

• 4. Trade minor economic activity that supports
  small unlike livestock, fishing and farming
  which are the major source of survival

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TUBAE SUCCESS

• Establishment of three aloe cottage industries in
  Turkana south, Loima and Turkana West runned by
  our own member organizations
• Production of industrial Aloe products, SOAPS,
  LOTION, SHAMPOO, LIQUID DETERGENT (OMO), Aloe gum
  (Mawe ya supili), skin tonic (those who want to
  be like the whites)
• Propagation (planting of 39 Aloe farms across
  Turkana county)
• Construction of premises to process Aloe products
• First to attain collective trade mark in Kenya
  (ECHUCHUKA)
• Products have adhered to the normal legal frame
  work approved by KEBs, Bar code of Kenya and
  acceptable world wide
• Training of communities on management of Natural
  resources mainly Aloe, resin (Ekinyate), incense
  (Elubai), gum Arabica (eminae)
• Partnership and linkages worked with Practical
  action, LWF (Lutheran world federation), Lodwar
  diocese and GOK departments that deal with
  environment
• CDTF who are funding ENVIRONMENT PROJECT
  entitled turkana environment poverty reduction
  project (TEPEP) in three district for the next
  three years (jan,2012 - 2014)
• Pragya India Education for 3 months July,- Sept,
  2012
• UNDP-K Amkeni waKenya Governance peace project
  for 6 months

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Challenges

• Inadequate funds to fully implement components in
  line with beneficiaries needs
• Staff inadequate no funds to support and sustain
• Logistical problem in relation to insecure
  project areas i.e. Oropoi going by motor cycle,
  Juluk with Lorogon issue unsettled
• No funds for research which is required to inform
  the project on the needs and projects demand
• mapping of NRM has not been done in Turkana
• Duplication of projects with no zoning, mapping
  who is where, doing what, where to partner

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Proposed projects

• Establish environmental conservancy centre for
  research, technology transfer and cultural
  tourism Lodwar town
• Newsletter for Environmental conservation and
  governance
• Integrated approach to Conflict Transformation in
  northern Kenya (target 15 locations most affected
  by conflict)

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Conclusion

• This is the small we have and still doing
• Due to high demand and increased needs in Turkana
  county we have sleepless nights fund raising in
  ensuring we do our best at our time with your
  help and support
• Be blessed
• Thank you