Our Mission
To protect Indigenous rights, preserve cultural and ecological heritage, and build resilient livelihoods across the Omo-Turkana Basin and other rural areas by bridging Indigenous knowledge with frontier technology, participatory research, and cross-border peacebuilding.
Our Vision
A future where Indigenous communities thrive with dignity, self-determination, and sovereignty over their lands, waters, cultures, and futures—unlocking an enduring and prosperous green and blue economy that serves as a model for the continent.
Our Core Objectives
- Strengthen Indigenous self-determination – Train community paralegals, advocates, and leaders to claim constitutional rights, monitor development projects, and participate meaningfully in county and national governance.
- Safeguard the basin’s ecosystems – Establish community-led environmental monitoring, fisheries conservation, and restoration projects that protect Lake Turkana, its wetlands, rangelands, and biodiversity from degradation.
- Build climate and water resilience – Combine Indigenous early warning systems with climate science to develop adaptation plans, drought preparedness, and water sovereignty infrastructure, including solar-powered water systems and rainwater harvesting.
- Expand equitable access to healthcare – Deploy mobile health clinics, telemedicine hubs, medical drone logistics, and digital health tools to overcome the tyranny of distance in remote settlements.
- Preserve and revitalize Indigenous languages and knowledge – Document endangered languages like El Molo, create digital dictionaries and oral history archives, and position the basin’s knowledge systems within global research.
- Foster cross-border peace and mobility – Facilitate peace dialogues, resource-sharing agreements, and traditional conflict resolution mechanisms among communities across Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda.
- Create sustainable livelihoods and green economies – Support women’s cooperatives, youth innovation hubs, sustainable fisheries, pastoralist rangeland management, climate-smart agriculture, and renewable energy enterprises.
- Generate actionable, community-led research – Operate the Omo-Turkana Futures Lab and Indigenous Knowledge Institute to produce policy briefs, climate models, water forecasts, and technology pilots that anticipate emerging challenges and opportunities.