Learn Design Thinking For Impactful Conservation
The Challenge:
The Ondiri Wetlands are suffering from overuse and abuse by people, can we regenerate the environment and secure the livelihoods of those same people?
You could be part of the SOLUTION to this and many other challenges like it across Kenya
Join us for a one-day field workshop where you will begin to learn how to help local people solve environmental problems using Human Centred Design (HCD) techniques employed by KUAPO to develop innovative and impactful projects. The day will begin with a primer on HCD principals, followed by the opportunity to visit the wetlands first hand and put these new techniques into action by teaming up to gather knowledge from the Ondiri Wetlands stakeholders. Each team will work to create solutions for the ecosystem and present them to the stakeholders for evaluation.
You will receive individual feedback and a certificate of participation as well as the satisfaction of knowing that your ideas may be used to save the Ondiri Wetlands.
Date: Saturday the 13th of July
Location: Kikuyu Town
The workshop includes: Workshop materials, training and lunch
Cost: FREE
Who should apply: Kenyans who are passionate about finding solutions to environmental problems that place local people in the driver’s seat!
Applications Now Closed.
Spaces are limited to 20 people. Participants will be selected based on responses to the application questions. Please note that passion for people and conservation is a must but experience in the field is not a necessity.
Learning With Us
KUAPO is looking for ambitious, highly organised, motivated, and well-rounded individuals to take part in this course so that they can actively go out and solve Kenyas environmental problems. We do not “educate” or “impose”, we listen and then strip away bias to provide you with balanced information and techniques to help you reach your own conclusions. Learning about ourselves and the world around us is a never-ending journey and we are here to support you so that you can reach your professional and personal development goals. It is our hope that this workshop will give you the confidence to apply your existing knowledge to new challenges and uncover solutions within seemingly insurmountable challenges.
What is Human Centred Design (HCD) and What does it have to do with conservation?
To tackle the systematic problems in our society that cause harm to our environment we need to listen, engage and act. HCD is a way of looking at a problem from a multitude of angles that enables us to produce consistently innovative and appropriate solutions.
About us: Separation of local people from the management of their resources has coincided with massive environmental destruction and decline in quality of life for people in rural Kenya. There is a lack of confidence that Kenyans can manage their resources due to the perception that we do not care, do not have the knowledge or capacity to solve their own problems or are too impoverished to do so. KUAPO aims to change that by reappointing the people of Kenya as caretakers of wildlife, embracing age-old philosophy and cultures to innovate conservation models promoting environmental and social wellbeing. We do this by helping grassroots initiatives to create positive change within their ecosystem and advocating for a paradigm shift in conservation models.
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