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Kipok is IMPACT Kenya's direct community financing initiative — built so that Indigenous communities decide, for themselves, how to meet the climate shocks and vulnerabilities they face.
Most climate finance moves through layers of institutions before it reaches the people living the crisis. Kipok inverts that. Elders, women, and youth within each community set the priorities — and the fund resources those priorities directly, without intermediaries deciding on their behalf.
That model has held since 2020: communities identify what water source needs protecting, which grazing corridor needs securing, or which cultural institution needs rebuilding — and Kipok moves the resources to match.
Pastoralist and Indigenous communities across East Africa's drylands are best positioned to know their own risks. Kipok's role is to remove the distance between that knowledge and the money that acts on it.
Placing pastoralism at the center as a economic pillar of dryland food security, not a legacy practice to work around.
Restoring livelihoods, families, and relationships in communities recovering from drought, conflict, or displacement.
Backing community-owned, culturally rooted ventures — including eco-tourism cottages and a planned pastoralist heritage museum.
Fast food and health support reaching families in the middle of an active crisis, not after it.
Supporting transhumance with tools communities can actually use — grazing maps and climate monitoring built for mobility.
Innovation funds and education sponsorship aimed at the people who will carry this model forward.
Resourcing the ceremonies and institutions that hold communities together across generations.
Reaching that goal means raising USD 3 million over the next two years — through grants, blended finance, community contributions, and direct, unrestricted funding that communities can deploy on their own terms.
Elders, youth, and women serve on two-year terms, reviewing and directing disbursements.
Provides oversight and continuity between panel rotations, keeping the fund accountable.
Funding priorities originate with the communities Kipok serves, not with external assessment alone.
Strategy documents, reports, and updates on the fund are published here — not filed under general resources — so anyone arriving by QR code or direct link finds what they need immediately.
Additional Kipok reports will be added to this section as they are released.
Founder of IMPACT and convener of the PARAAN Alliance, guiding Kipok's direction alongside community panels.
Oversees Kipok's operational and donor-facing coordination across IMPACT Kenya's four offices.
