Participants gathered at our Wajir CVE forum, one of the clearest examples of our dialogue-based field work.
Community-led development and inclusion
Strengthening communities through heritage, peacebuilding, inclusion, and grassroots development.
Pastoral Heritage Concern works with communities and stakeholders to inform development policy and practice through grounded local solutions, public dialogue, and dignity-centered action.
Dialogue
Community forums and local conversations designed around trust, prevention, and participation.
Inclusion
Awareness work that advances dignity, understanding, and practical support for excluded groups.
Advocacy
Grassroots knowledge translated into policy language, development practice, and stakeholder dialogue.
Resilience
Community-centered approaches that connect peacebuilding, youth engagement, and public awareness.
Based in Nairobi, Kenya
Informing development policy and practice through grassroots innovative solutions.
Who We Are
A community-first organization connecting local realities to public action
Pastoral Heritage Concern is positioned at the intersection of peacebuilding, social inclusion, youth engagement, and grassroots development. Its contribution is to help communities, institutions, and development actors work from grounded understanding rather than distant assumptions.
Peacebuilding & Community Resilience
Convening communities and stakeholders around practical pathways for trust, prevention, and long-term resilience.
Youth Engagement
Creating space for youth participation in local security, dialogue, and development conversations.
Social Inclusion & Awareness
Advancing dignity, awareness, and community education around issues that affect excluded groups.
Grassroots Policy Dialogue
Linking lived realities and local innovation to development policy and implementation practice.
Why We Exist
Communities need development responses shaped by lived realities.
We work in settings where peace, inclusion, awareness, and development are closely connected. In such environments, trust and participation matter as much as technical design.
We exist to bring grassroots perspectives into practical programming and policy thinking that affect community life.
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Local trust comes first
Peace and prevention efforts are more credible when communities trust the process and the people convening it.
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Youth need real space
Young people need meaningful room in security, civic, and development dialogue rather than symbolic inclusion.
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Inclusion changes outcomes
Awareness and inclusion work matter where stigma still shapes access, dignity, and opportunity.
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Policy must stay grounded
Development policy becomes more relevant when it is informed by lived community experience.
Featured Programs
Priority work areas rooted in peace, inclusion, and grounded development
Our program areas connect community voice, public awareness, peacebuilding, and policy dialogue in ways that are practical for partners and grounded in lived realities.
Program area
Peacebuilding & Community Resilience
We strengthen local peace infrastructures through trust, dialogue, and practical resilience.
- Dialogue-led conflict prevention support
- Community participation in peace processes
- Resilience thinking linked to daily realities
Program area
Youth Engagement
We approach young people as civic actors and community partners, not only as beneficiaries.
- Youth participation in local dialogue forums
- Community-centered leadership engagement
- Stronger inclusion in prevention conversations
Program area
Countering Violent Extremism
We facilitate prevention-oriented forums grounded in local context, partnership, and dialogue.
- Stakeholder dialogue on prevention pathways
- Locally grounded public awareness
- Community-centered security conversations
Projects & Updates
Featured updates from our work in communities
A selection of updates that reflects how we work in peacebuilding, livelihoods, inclusion, dialogue, and community engagement.
CurrentPeacebuilding & LivelihoodsCurrent project
Mitigating Polycrisis Among Samburu Morans in Laisamis/Merile Ward
Laisamis/Merile Ward, Samburu and Marsabit Counties, Kenya
We are advancing a community-based response to cattle rustling, highway robbery, and climate stress by supporting 51 Morans with livelihoods, financial skills, climate adaptation knowledge, and peacebuilding training.
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Social InclusionMay 3, 2019
Interactive Session with Service Providers and Caregivers of Children with Albinism
Turkana / Lodwar, Kenya
We convened an interactive session focused on children with albinism, bringing service providers and caregivers into the same conversation around support, awareness, and practical response.
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Social InclusionFebruary 20, 2018
County Awareness Campaign on Living Positively with Albinism
Chuka, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya
We carried out a county-level public education activity focused on helping communities understand albinism, manage it safely, and reduce harmful attitudes.
Read moreLatest Learning
Field reflections, issue notes, and thematic insight
We use this section to share short learning notes, issue commentary, and reflections from our work.
PeacebuildingPeacebuilding note
Building Peace and Resilience in Grassroots Communities
Durable peace is strongest when local voices shape both the problem diagnosis and the response.
Read articleYouth EngagementCommunity security note
Youth Inclusion in Community Security
Young people are not only affected by insecurity. They are also key partners in building safer communities.
Read articlePolicy & AdvocacyPolicy perspective
Why Local Knowledge Matters in Development Policy
Policy becomes more useful when it starts from lived experience rather than distance from it.
Read articleGallery
A visual record of community work and public engagement
Selected images from our work showing community meetings, awareness sessions, current field interventions, facilitation, and participant engagement.
Goats gathered under shade in the current Laisamis/Merile Ward project area, reflecting the pastoral livelihood context that this intervention is built around.
Road access into the project area, showing the arid and remote terrain that shapes movement, trade, service delivery, and security in this work.
Goat-based livelihood activity from our current Laisamis/Merile Ward intervention, where we are working with Morans on practical alternatives to insecurity and economic marginalisation.
Partner with PHC to support peace, inclusion, and stronger grassroots development
This site is structured to speak credibly to community organizations, development agencies, county actors, and donor partners looking for grounded local collaboration.