Kenyan Natural Resource Management Case Study

The Kenyan Natural Resource Management project The project location is an area called Cherangany Hills, an area covered by rich forest and includes numerous national parks, swamps, lakes and conservation areas. A large indigenous population known as the Sengwer People, also called Cherangany or Dorobo by some are also from this area. This project that was intended for financial and industrial improvement of the native people of Cherangany Hills actually caused a lot of chaos and heartbreak and displacement for thousands of people. ("Kenyan Government’s forced evictions threaten cultural survival of the Sengwer | Forest Peoples Programme", 2017)

The Kenyan Resource Management Project cost 78 million dollars, 68.5 million of those dollars were
The Sengwer people are still being evicted by having their homes burned today. The whole situation should have and could have been avoided if the World Bank had a team to do some major research before the project was approved and money was allocated to the wrong hands in this case. The Kenyan government has been at odds about land ownership and placement with the Sengwer for decades, the Sengwer claim the objective of the Kenyan government has always been to remove them from the forest. Social, political and historical aspects were not considered in this case, and it ended up causing a lot of damage and the Kenyan government used the cover of forest preservation to cover up a removal of indigenous tribes. Thousands of the Sengwer were displaced since the beginning of the project, by having their homes burned to the ground. The world bank did not consider the fact that the Sengwer were the best conservationist for the land that they lived on because they have been the caretakers of that have lived and protected the Cherangany Hills forest for as long as the people of Kenya can remember and have recorded. ("Indigenous tribe watches houses burn and points fingers at the World Bank", 2017) ("Projects : Kenya - Natural Resource Management Project | The World Bank",
People on both sides need to be heard and their stories seriously considered before any funding or decisions are made. Mediators and negotiators should be standard practice during negotiations, and a comparable agreement for all parties with consequences set in stone for failure to stay with the plan are a must. Serious consideration of who is in charge of any project that the World Bank funds should be top priority, maybe even outsourced entities should be considered. That would decrease, maybe not end government corruption and also decrease situations like the one that has taken place in