Strategic Plan

In mid-2021, FoLT staff and board embarked on a journey to collectively dream, envision, and build a new strategic framework to build on the last strategic framework and guide our work over the next five years. Because we uphold and honor the power of community and collective organizing, we strive to build the organization through a people-centered strategic planning process. 

We began the process by reviewing our programmatic priorities, articulating our values and principles, and reimagining self-determined territorial organizing; through storytelling, we each brought our values to the table and created the anthology of the story of FoLT. 

Through the process, we deepened our understanding of each of the programs and their intersectionality with the other programs while conducting a SWOT analysis to bring out our collective vision. 

We collectively learned through internal and external inquiry, group discussions, deep listening, adaptation and analysis, building on a close-knit team that is highly agile and adaptable, each colleague bringing on unique strengths to FoLT.

Our belief in the role and importance of indigenous knowledge and traditional information networks while centering the community as rights holders in every advocacy is one of our key success factors. We are engaging the geography from a territorial lens while investing in community organizing across the various thematic areas. 
This 2022-2026 strategy framework serves as a guide to our work. However, in working with and for communities, our strategy is to ensure we can support communities' needs and struggles. Therefore, the approach cannot be static. This framework is a  live document that responds to the changes and realities of communities within the Turkana basin and across the territories.