Country	Kenya
Name of scheme	Important Bird Areas (IBA) monitoring in Africa
Biome (terrestrial; freshwater; marine)	Terrestrial
What is monitored	Human resource use and wildlife
Who compiles data	Community members
Number of community members involved	100 community members (2003)
Spatial scale. Size of area monitored	77,000 ha in one area (2003), since then more areas have been added
Methods used	Methods include, e.g., species lists and simple photography
Year of initiation	2003
Funded by	Funded by GEF/UNDP project ‘African NGO-Government partnerships for sustainable biodiversity action’ and UK Government’s Darwin Initiative for the Survival of Species
Documents or publications available	Bennun 2001, Arinaitwe 2003, Ng’weno et al. 2004, Bennun et al. 2005
Organizers and contact details	The organizers are Leon Bennun, Paul Matiku, Ronald Mulwa, Solomon Mwangi and Paul Buckley.  BirdLife International, Wellbrook Court, Girton Road, Cambridge CB3 0NA, UK; Nature Kenya, P.O. Box 44486, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya; National Museums of Kenya, P.O. Box 40658, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya; Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, The Lodge, Sandy, Beds., SG19 2DL, UK. E-mail: leon.bennun@birdlife.org
Home page	http://www.birdlife.org/action/science/sites/african_ibas/index.html

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