Institute for Culture and Ecology

Networking & Partnerships

Working with local communities to help them secure their human rights

Institutional Development

We are constantly working towards the improvement of our internal capacity to deliver our mission.

Food Sovereignty

We aim to enhance the adaptive capacity of communities to the effects of climate change.

Research Management

We support collaborative research with communities and research institutions on priority issues in natural resource management, food and seed sovereignty and other emerging issues.

Natural Resource Management

We seek to restore the functioning of the ecosystem and provide services essential for human well-being.

Campaign and Advocacy

Strengthening campaign and advocacy capacities among target communities to influence decisions, policies.

– Our Vision –

To empower communities to harness indigenous knowledge for healthy people and ecosystems.

Who we Are

The Institute for Culture and Ecology (ICE) is a national indigenous non-governmental organisation started in 2006 and registered with the NGO Coordination Board. ICE was founded out of a visible need to promote the inherent and natural role of culture in environmental and resource management in Kenya. ICE works with community groups and schools in Tharaka Nithi, Machakos, Meru, Murang’a, Embu, Kilifi and Kiambu counties.

Our Mandate

To promote environmental conservation and natural resource management through buttressing traditional knowledge in community-based environmental and resource management initiatives; and facilitate cultural-based learning that will lead to social and ecological wellbeing of the earth community.