Our Vision
A peaceful, reconciled, and self-reliant Kenya where communities resolve disputes through dialogue, protect shared resources, and prosper together with lasting economic dignity.
Our Mission
To spearhead grassroots conflict resolution, traditional Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), and mediation accords—using peace as the essential foundation to anchor climate resilience, shared water access, youth empowerment, and women-led prosperity.
Our Peace Principles
- • Peace First: No crop grows and no business survives amidst gunfire
- • Traditional Legitimacy: Empowering Councils of Elders & ADR
- • Shared Peace Dividends: Neutral water & market corridors
- • UNSCR 1325: Women and youth as primary peace negotiators
Founded in Nairobi, Expanding Across Kenya's Conflict Corridors
The Center for Livelihood & Development (CLD Kenya) was conceived in 2014 by a passionate team of Kenyan mediators, agronomists, and community development organizers in Nairobi. Recognizing that recurrent resource-based conflict—over pasture, water, and informal urban boundaries—paralyzes economic progress, CLD pioneered an integrated "Peace for Livelihoods" model.
From our Nairobi secretariat in Upper Hill, we coordinate interventions that link informal settlement peace champions in Mathare and Kibera with traditional peace elders across pastoralist corridors in Turkana, Samburu, and Marsabit.
"Where there is conflict, no seed can flourish. By mediating resource disputes and equipping communities with shared water and economic opportunities, we build peace that endures."
— Executive Director, CLD Kenya
