RAIN 2 Seed: Chyullu Development Foundation

The Chyullu Development Foundation works to improve farmer livelihoods while protecting local ecosystems and strengthening human nature relationships in Makueni County, southeastern Kenya. The organisation aims to improve the livelihoods of the Chyullu community by supporting them in attaining sustainable farming practices.

Innovation Challenge grantees have the option to participate in a research study in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre looking at the transformative potential of their initiative. This is part of the Seeds for Transformative Resilience work. The research project involves a series of interviews and surveys that were analysed to develop a document that details and explains these efforts and investigates the grantees transformative potential.

A seed is a local or regional initiative already being implemented but not yet mainstream that strengthens community resilience and has the potential to drive transformative change. These initiatives offer practical examples of how more sustainable, resilient, and peaceful futures can emerge through new ways of thinking, social movements, institutions or technologies. Seeds have transformative potential when they support learning and systems understanding, foster collaboration, are backed by resources, fit their context and help shift power structures and norms.