• Address: Room 12 Mother's Plaza, along stadium posta Road. Postal Address: P.O. Box 881- 20106, Molo, Kenya

MACOFA

MAU COMMUNITY FORESTRY ASSOCIATION

2007

Member since

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Platforms

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Recognize and protect the diverse tenure and production systems upon which people’s livelihoods depend, including the communal and customary tenure systems of smallholders, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, fisher folks, and holders of overlapping, shifting and periodic rights to land and other natural resources, even when these are not recognized by law, and whilst also acknowledging that the well-being of resource-users may be affected by changes beyond the boundaries of the land to which they have tenure rights.
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Diverse Tenure Systems

Respect and protect the inherent land and territorial rights of indigenous peoples, as set out in ILO Convention 169 and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including by recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge and cultures contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment".
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Secure territorial rights for Indigenous Peoples

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
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Inclusive decision-making

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
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Transparent and accessible information

Mission

The association's mission is to restore and sustain biological, aesthetic, economic and cultural values of the Mau Forest Complex and improve community livelihoods
MACOFA was founded in 2000. The vision is to have a forest ecosystem that sustains economic, ecological and social needs of Mau Community in Kenya and the watershed as a whole.

Objectives

The objectives include facilitating communities to co-manage forests with the government and share benefits, empower communities to conserve biodiversity through contemporary and indigenous knowledge and laws, building community capacity to participate in forest governance and restore forest cover and engaging communities in legal and forest governance literacy.

Constituencies

MACOFA's constituencies include community based organisations in Mau complex with interest in natural resource and forest management, comprising of pastoralists, wood gatherers, pasture collectors, herbs collectors, peasant farmers, water users, and others targeting to access forest products and services.

  • Address: Room 12 Mother's Plaza, along stadium posta Road. Postal Address: P.O. Box 881- 20106, Molo, Kenya