Knowledge Hub

Policy Papers and Strategic Documents

The plans the Foundation works from, and the policy forums where it speaks for Community Conserved Areas (CCAs).

Strategic documents

Plans written to be worked from.

Organisational profiles, business plans, and action plans prepared for partners, agencies, and the Board.

2025Organisational profile

Brief about Kenono Foundation

The Foundation’s profile as prepared for agencies and funders: registration and governance, the relationship with Zunpha Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd., the five programme areas, partners, and footprint.

2026Business plan and feasibility report

Kenono Coffee Processing, Roasting and Value Chain Development Initiative

Prepared in May 2026 for venture partners and investors: the case for an integrated, community-owned coffee processing and value-addition enterprise at Mission Centre Zunpha, from washing, pulping, and drying to roasting, grading, branding, and market linkage for Arabica grown across Tseminyu and neighbouring districts.

  • Background on coffee in Nagaland and the post-harvest gap the plan addresses
  • Proposed technical infrastructure, market analysis, training needs, and financial feasibility
  • Partnership areas for investors, risk assessment, and the long-term vision
2024 to 2026Annual action plans

Action plans for the year ahead

Each annual report closes with the strategic action plan for the following year, with outcome indicators: strengthening CCAs, conservation enterprises, coffee, Sendenyu, Community Forest Rights in the Western Rengma and the plantation project.

Policy engagement

Where the Foundation speaks for CCAs.

Forums and processes in which Kenono Foundation carries the case for community-governed conservation, from the district to the national level.

National

National Working Group on Community Conserved Areas

The Chief Executive chairs the NWG-CCA for 2025 to 2027, a term that opens collaboration, partnership, and resource mobilisation for CCAs across India.

Community Conserved Areas (CCAs)
National

Stewardship Alliance

Working group member of the alliance led by LANDSTACK, developing a common stewardship fund and co-designing climate and biodiversity projects under the International Climate Initiative (IKI).

State

UNDP CONSERVE

Field-level implementing agency for Tseminyu District in the project Catalysing Optimum Management of Natural Heritage for Sustainability of Ecosystem, Resources and Viability of Endangered Wildlife Species, which will develop a biodiversity corridor in the district.

State

Nagaland Community Conserved Areas Forum

Member of the forum of CCA villages and organisations, whose microsite and analytics dashboard sit on the CCA portal the Foundation helped communities populate.

Nagaland CCA Forum
District

Tseminyu District Green Initiatives

A multi-stakeholder platform formed in 2023 through the District Development and Planning Board, bringing community institutions, the church, civil society, and Government together on conservation and green development.

Western Rengma

Community Forest Resource Rights

Hand-holding support for a stepwise Community Forest Resource Rights process in the Western Rengma, Karbi Anglong, under the Forest Rights Act 2006, with a working committee constituted by the RNPC after the workshop of September 4, 2025.

Village Institutions and Naga Law
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