WCCI Kenya is responsible for community training and building out Kenya Centers

Our Kenya Team Leaders

WCCI-Kenya is currently working to become a registered NGO in Kenya. Meet the project leads.

Rose Wamalwa, Co-Country Coordinator, WCCI Kenya. Along with her WCCI duties, Rose is the founder of Women In Water and Natural Resources Conservation (WWANC) http://wwanc.org a women led local organization working in Kenya with various partnerships in East Africa and the US, that addresses the interconnected impacts of climate change in vulnerable communities, focusing on low-cost environmentally appropriate technologies, advocacy and leadership. Rose has over 10 years experience working with grassroots communities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania coordinating and managing various development programmes such as Community Climate Change related projects; WASH projects with Global Women’s Water Initiative (GWWI). She is the team leader of the Kenya-Women Earth Alliance Women Climate Accelerator project, and currently through her organization WWANC Rose is championing the trees for livelihoods project with International Tree Foundation Organization where women have planted 50, 000 indigenous trees in the Kakamega forest and in their farmlands.

Rosemary Atieno, Co-Country Coordinator, WCCI Kenya. Rosemary is a community activist and expert in community dialogue. She has develop multiple training manuals on climate smart agriculture and bio intensive agriculture and other related technologies. She is deeply experienced in developing “train community” and “train the trainers” programs and works closely with the WCCI team in resource mobilization and identifying local partners and networks for collaborations. For WCCI she regularly conducts Community Dialogues and program sensitization and coordination of grass roots women in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Rosemary is also the founder of Community Mobilization for Positive Empowerment and a past project officer for Concern Worldwide. She has lead capacity building training for rural women on a number of topics including urban agriculture and food security, WASH climate smart technologies, clean cookstoves, and farm production and value chains. Rosemary has participated in speaking engagements all over the world, most recently at COP26, hosted by the International Institute for Environment and Development.