Mt Kenya Ecosystem Management Plan

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS)

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Abstract: This 10-year (2010-2020) management plan for Mt. Kenya Ecosystem (MKE) has been developed by MKE stakeholders through an elaborate and highly participatory planning process that benefited from a wealth of information and ideas provided by key MKE stakeholders. Plan implementation will similarly be quite participatory to ensure that management actions designed to address threats impacting on MKE’s natural resources are effectively abated. This plan is one in a series of protected area plans that have been developed in line with the KWS Protected Area Planning Framework (PAPF). These plans adopt an ecosystem approach to plan development and implementation with a view to addressing conservation issues holistically and actively involving local communities and other stakeholders in ecosystem conservation and management. PAPF-based plans are principally designed to be practical management tools to support day-to-day management of conservation areas. Unlike other types of plans where management actions are often stated but not expounded, management actions in PAPF-based plans are elaborated to improve understanding increasing prospects of implementation. They however, do not set out a detailed inventory of issues or problems impacting the MKE, that are not directly addressed through the plan’s management objectives and actions and they do not provide detailed descriptions of the PAs management, administration, and national policies, unless they are relevant to the plan’s management objectives and actions. Detailed inventories are usually provided in a separate document referred to as the Resource Base Inventory (RBI) Report.