News & Insights

Title: A Race to Dignity – Bringing Hope to Kasavai, Kenya
🔗 foxnews.com
📅 Date: December 18, 2011
📝 Context: Describes a CLOUT-supported project for widows in Kasavai engaged in bee-keeping and aloe farming.

📘 1. UNDP & NEPAD Report

Title: Improving Market Access for Dryland Commodities in East Africa – Synthesis Report
📅 Circa 2008
🔗 Download PDF from UNDP

Highlights CLOUT’s role in Namanga supporting “alternative livelihood interventions including modern bee-keeping, pasture management, energy conservation and water supply” as part of UNDP/NEPAD Drylands Market Access initiatives

📘 2. AWF / ABCG Energy Technologies Report

Title: Review of Household Clean Energy Technology for Lighting, Cooking and Charging in East Africa
📅 Circa 2012 (Imbirikani site)
🔗 PDF Report (ABCG)

🔗 BATS Climate Paper Fitzgerald

Includes a case study from Imbirikani, Kenya, where AWF collaborated with CLOUT to introduce improved cookstoves, solar cookers, and energy-saving devices.

📘 3. AUDA-NEPAD Workshop Report

Title: Policy Paper on Mainstreaming Climate Change Risks
📅 Date unspecified (linked with AU/NEPAD climate adaptation work)
🔗 Download via NEPAD

📘 4. UNCCD – COP 7 Accredited CSOs

Title: List of Civil Society Organizations Accredited to UNCCD COP Conferences
📅 2022 UNCCD List
🔗 Accredited CSOs PDF

Includes Centre for Livelihood Opportunities Unlimited and Technologies (CLOUT) in the official list of civil society organizations accredited to the Conference of the Parties, recorded in UNCCD documentation

📘 5. UNFCCC / GCOS Status Report

Title: The Global Climate Observing System 2021 – GCOS Status Report
📅 2021 (supports UNFCCC)
🔗 Download Full UNFCCC Submission

Lists Isabella Masinde from CLOUT (Nairobi, Kenya) among contributors and signatories, demonstrating CLOUT’s engagement in global climate observation networks