Napopongoit – December 3, 2025 (Public Communication and Media Relations)

Nanam Ward Community has called on Food Systems Resilience Project (FSRP) to support their local Savings and Cooperative Societies (SACCOs), driving efforts to boost credit access for the members.

Community members said this during a Participatory Integrated Community Development (PICD) model, through which they mapped out Nanam Ward Savings, Nasinyono Livestock, and Nasinyono Farmers as existing SACCOs in the locality. Other four are in the registration process.

Recognizing the potential of SACCOs in Turkana, FSRP aims to enhance farmer producer organizations, and livestock groups to access affordable credit facility in order to builld agricultural and food systems resilience.

The Nanam Team Lead, Juma Vitalis stated,”the support through local SACCOs will be provided to drought-affected farmers in order to rebuild their crop and livestock systems, and later in the process, adopt modern climate-smart technologies that will enhance their productivity.

The community meeting brought together representatives from Nanam, Mogila, Kapetadie and Lorau villages.

Later in the day, members formed Nanam Ward Community Driven Development Committee, where John Auren Lotukoi, Nangole Jibril and Aloch Emuria were elected Chairperson, Secretary and Treasurer respectively.

Afterwards, Lotukoi signed a memorandum of understanding with the county’s FSRP. The signing was witnessed by Nangole Alfred, the Ward Administrator.

County Department of Agriculture officials; Moses Ekai, Mathew Echukule and Eregae Ephraim, a representative of area Chief were present during the exercise.

At the end of the Project, FSRP envisages to support 180,000 farmers to access credit for productive investments.