Kenono Foundation
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Synergy between conservation and social enterprise. Kenono works in 128 villages across Nagaland, and with the institutions that govern land and forest from the khel to the state.
Community stewardship through community enterprise. The theory of change runs as a cycle; scroll to move around it.
The living foundation. Forests, rivers, biodiversity, land, climate, and culture shape our communities.
Indigenous and local communities are the primary stewards of their landscapes.
Ethical responsibility expressed through conservation, sustainable use, traditional knowledge, and collective governance.
Local, community-owned enterprises create dignified livelihoods while strengthening ecosystems.
Village councils, community institutions, cooperatives, and groups provide governance, continuity, and trust.
Intergenerational learning, research, innovation, and partnerships expand opportunities and build resilience.
Communities lead their own development.
Traditional knowledge is valued and strengthened.
Nature is not a resource to exploit but a relationship to nurture.
Women, youth, and vulnerable groups are central to our work.
We walk with communities for lasting generational change.
Building strong relationships based on respect.
Building skills, confidence, and leadership at the local level.
Working with governments, academia, civil society, funders, and alliances.
Using learning and research to inform better decisions.
Learning, adapting, and evolving with communities.
Biodiversity conserved, ecosystems restored, climate resilience strengthened.
Improved livelihoods, food security, health, culture, and well-being.
Capable, accountable, and inclusive local institutions.
Community-owned enterprises that are viable, ethical, and biodiversity-positive.
Youth and children inspired and equipped to lead with stewardship and innovation.
Community-led forest biodiversity conservation, working from the village up to the global registry.
Training and capacity building for village management committees, so that villages conserve and manage their own forest biodiversity.
Working at the landscape level with the state forum of Community Conserved Areas (CCAs) and other forest committee federations.
A working group member for indigenous and community conserved territories across India.
On the steering committee of the international registry that records community conserved territories.
The same five areas organise the What we do menu. Open any page to read the whole story.
Restoring forest and building resilience to a changing climate, from native tree planting to the seed that farmers will need next.
Conserving one corner of the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot through the institutions and the education that keep it standing.
Rural livelihoods and collective entrepreneurship through the cooperative and the nature-based enterprises around it.
Strengthening the village institutions that govern land and forest under customary law.
Community-owned carbon projects that pay for restoration and return the income to the village.
Every line of work Kenono runs, placed on the map. Select a line to light its sites.
5,490 households and 30,262 people across 128 villages, covering about 12,000 ha of Community Conserved Area (CCA) landscape, with 36 CCAs documented on the South Asia portal.
Open the page →Sites are placed approximately. District rings mark landscape-wide work; dots mark a village, town, or venue.