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Five overlapping circles of partnership, beginning with the communities that co-create every initiative and reaching out to the national and global alliances that carry the work further.
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Every meaningful partnership begins with communities.
The Foundation works alongside Indigenous and local communities as equal partners in shaping resilient landscapes. These relationships are founded upon trust, customary governance, mutual learning, and long-term commitment.
Promoter of the Kenono Foundation and its principal community enterprise partner, demonstrating how cooperative institutions can strengthen stewardship and rural prosperity.
A pioneering community institution stewarding one of Nagaland’s best-known Community Conserved Areas (CCAs), collaborating on biodiversity conservation, environmental education, responsible tourism, and landscape governance.
And across Nagaland: village councils, customary institutions, churches, youth organisations, women’s groups, producer groups, and community enterprises.
These partnerships remind us that communities are not beneficiaries. They are co-creators of every initiative.
Stewardship grows stronger when practice and knowledge continuously inform one another.
The Foundation collaborates with organisations that advance ecological understanding, Indigenous knowledge, policy dialogue, and community learning.
Advancing Community Conserved Areas (CCAs), ecological governance, and biodiversity policy.
Sharing decades of grassroots experience in community institution building and natural resource management.
Promoting Indigenous knowledge, rural innovation, and sustainable livelihoods.
Strengthening gender-responsive development, ecological agriculture, and community leadership.
Contributing expertise on landscape conservation, restoration, and nature-based solutions.
Collaborating on community-led conservation practice and documentation.
Advancing commons governance and landscape stewardship.
Supporting youth leadership, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
These partnerships strengthen the Foundation as both a practitioner and a learning institution.
Resilient landscapes require collaboration between communities and public institutions.
Kenono Foundation works constructively with government agencies supporting biodiversity conservation, rural livelihoods, cooperative development, climate resilience, and institutional strengthening.
Community stewardship becomes stronger when public institutions recognise communities as partners in development.
Connecting community stewardship with landscape restoration, climate finance, and nature-positive enterprise.
The Foundation increasingly collaborates with institutions working at the intersection of biodiversity, climate resilience, restoration, and community economies.
Together these organisations support initiatives such as Forest Futures, exploring how landscape restoration, biodiversity conservation, and community enterprise can contribute at once to climate resilience, carbon markets, and rural prosperity.
Climate action should strengthen community stewardship rather than replace it.
Rooted in Nagaland, and contributing to networks that advance community stewardship across India and the world.
Participation in these alliances lets the Foundation share community experience, contribute to policy dialogue, strengthen Indigenous governance, advance Community Conserved Areas (CCAs), promote landscape stewardship, and connect local innovation with global learning.
Rather than exporting solutions, the Foundation contributes perspectives emerging from the lived experience of Indigenous communities in Nagaland.
If your institution works on community stewardship, restoration, rural enterprise, or Indigenous governance, there is a place for it here.