Welcome to Africa's First Water Fund
Clean water.
Community benefits.
Conserve nature.
As Africa’s first water fund, Upper Tana-Nairobi Water Fund Trust (UTNWF) provides a simple solution to one of the most pressing issues facing the world right now – water security.
The water fund concept is founded on the principle that it is cheaper to prevent water problems at the source than it is to address them later. UTNWF brings together public and private downstream users (like the city of Nairobi and its residents) and upstream watershed stewards (such as agricultural landholders) through their shared stake in a healthy water future.
Sprouted by The Nature Conservancy, UTNWF has seen incredible growth and interest and is an independent organization as of September 2021, operating locally and rooted in decades of experience, research and practice across the world.
vision, mission, values
A well conserved and managed Upper Tana watershed that sustains healthy livelihoods and ecosystem functions in the region and beyond
publications
Cost-Effective Development Portfolios
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reports
The Nairobi Water Fund Annual Report 2020
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stories
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What your Gift can do
Donate avocado tree seedlings
Support communities’ livelihoods by donating avocado tree seedlings. Each seedling has a potential benefit of KES 5000 to the farmers in yields – @KES 100 per tree
Harvest surface runoff
Support communities to harvest surface runoff, reduce dry season abstraction of water, and prevent sedimentation in water bodies by installing water harvesting ponds on farms. A unit can harvest upto 50,000 liters of water per season with an ability to irrigate 382 m2 of French beans for 75 days during dry season – each unit is KES 7000
Terraces and grass strips
Terraces and grass strips installed on the steep slopes of upper Tana help to significantly reduce soil erosion from farmlands thus reducing water disruption from clogging of water intakes and reservoirs. These measures help stabilize soil structure and nutrients thus improving land productivity – @ 1000 meters installed at KES 23,121.
Riparian lands protection
Riparian lands protection plays a huge role in creating buffers to trap sediments and nutrients from reaching the waterbodies. Your donation can help protect 1000 meters of a river on both sides at KES 94,484.
Publications
- UTNWF Strategic Plan
- Baseline Survey Report for the UTNWF_ Maragua_Thika-Chania_2013
- Estimation of crop water requirement in Maragua_Susan Maingi 2020
- BCG Tana River Kenya - FrontiersEnvSci 2021
- Effectiveness of contour farming and filter strips on ecosystem services
- A comparison of Tablet-Based and Paper-Based Survey Data Collection in Conservation Projects
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