Founder and DirectorIMPACT
Malih Ole Kaunga is the founder of OSILIGI(HOPE) in Maasai. OSILIGI later transformed into IMPACT is an organisation that exists to organise, build and strengthen indigenous peoples’ social movements in Kenya. Key areas of intervention are climate and adaptation, human rights, community self –organising and capacity development, peace building, Business and human rights, Land rights and natural resource governance and Legal and self-determined development. He is also the convenor of PARAN (Pastoralists Alliance for Resilience and Adaptation in Northern Kenya Rangelands) a coalition of community leaders and natural resources stewards, grassroots organisations, customary institutions that also sub grants to its members. He is an indigenous people’s expert on indigenous peoples and promoter of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change. He has published numerous articles on different journals in the areas of indigenous traditional knowledge, indigenous peoples and urbanisation,