We would like to thank the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Acton (GAGGA) for funding the study. Thanks also go to Ms. Soften Namanya-Gender & Food Security offer at National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE) for coordinating this Programme. We are grateful to the Nine partners in each of the study countries for having undertaken the reviews and Feld work. These partners include the National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE), National Association for Women’s Acton in Development (NAWAD), Anaka Foundation, Kwataniza Women’s Farmers Group (KWG) in Uganda; the East Africa Advisory Board-Global Green grants Fund (EAAB-GGF), Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) and Nature Kenya in Kenya; Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT), and Women Fund Tanzania(WTF) in Tanzania. We would like to extend our gratitude to the staff members of the partners, consultants, research assistants, community grassroots women’s groups, local and political leaders, and technical persons in environment and mining sectors across the three countries who were supportive during data
collection and validation exercises.
Lastly, our appreciation goes to Ms. Harriet Pamara for editing and compiling this report
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In Kenya four study areas/sites were chosen of which three were sand mining and one salt. Sand mining is practced in countes proximate to major urban centres/towns such as Machakos, Makueni, Kajiado Homabay, Kisumu, and Busia among others.