The Role of Women Organisations in Environmental Conservation in Nandi County

Abstract

In many regions within third world countries, women have formed organizations in response to their common problems. Though other groups came into being due to external initiatives like the church and non-governmental organizations, they all aimed at enabling women to achieve/attain advancement and improve on environmental conservation.This is a cross-sectional descriptive study on the role of women organizations in environmental conservation. Specifucally, the study set out to establish influence of culture,genderpolicy, resource mobilisation and socio-economic factors on environmental conservation. Guided by the ecofeminism theory, data was collected through a questionnaire and analysed through descriptive statistics using SPSS. The findings indicate that culture,genderpolicy,resource mobilisation and socio-economic factors influence environmental conservation . The study concludes that socioeconomic factors influence environmental conservation most. The study recommendsenvironmental advocacy bodies and non-government organizations (NGOs) should promote and enable this conversation. Different religious denomination should be motivated to develop common policies on environmental values benefiting every denomination; even including deeply-preserved traditions and respect for sacred sites of every denomination even the indigenous ones.