About ANI
ANI Partners is an independent management company that specializes in progressive and innovative conservation management of protected areas at a landscape level.
Its core ethos relies upon the focus on scale and the utilization of specialists within their fields to create operational effeciencies.
The guiding philosophy is one that transcends boundaries recognizing the ecological and social interdependence of the landscape as a whole to develop high level ecosystem-based conservation.
What we do?
1. Conservation Management
Direct front line conservation management including all aspects of security management in accordance with national strategy and liaison with relevant state authorities. This pillar will be informed by the application of best scientific practice and monitoring with respect to rangeland and ecosystem management.
2. Community Outreach
From initial institution building and the development of governance structures through to all avenues for meaningfully engaging and benefiting relevant local communities via training, employment, procurement, security assistance, human-wildlife conflict assistance, rangeland management assistance, education and health support with regard to building long term economic development catalyzed by conservation.
3. Infrastructure & Logistics
As required to support the delivery of the above two pillars, e.g. road infrastructure maintenance, water reticulation infrastructure and maintenance, fencing management, vehicle and plant management and maintenance.
4. Administration, Compliance & Finance
The provision of specialized conservation administrative services including Financial management, Compliance, government engagement, Human Resources, and fundraising and grant management.
5. Enterprise & Business Planning Coordination
help coordinate the planning and execution of enterprises so that it remains aligned with the conservation activities on each property.
Why we exist
Over the last 20 years the Laikipia District of Kenya, despite its diverse land use and formally unprotected status, has played host to some of the most progressive and innovative conservation development advances in Kenya (and indeed on the African continent).
That said, management dynamics across this landscape are highly fragmented with management resources, finances, activities and IP being ‘contained’ within individual (title defined) property boundaries and, in general, very low levels of meaningful cross-property and wider collaboration.
This is creating significant value leakage: compromised economic efficiency and resilience (both cost and revenue side); a strategic inability to manage conservation at scale (as it ideally needs to be); significant unleveraged intellectual capital ] and in consequence - and most importantly - an inability to optimise leadership capacity and capability in a sector and a country that now needs this more than ever.
ANI Partners is seeking to address this in Kenya, starting with with the management of Ole Naishu and Lolldagia conservancies, accumalitively 100,000acres of pristine habitat in central Laikipia.
