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National Tree Growing Restoration Campaign

National Tree Growing and Restoration
Kenya embarked on an ambitious tree planting drive, aiming to plant 15 billion trees nationwide by 2032. This effort seeks to increase the country's tree and forest cover from 12.13% to 21.07%. To achieve this goal, the initiative will focus on producing 7.9...
Published
Nov 30, 2025
Published By
Alex Mwaniki
Progress
38% Complete
Expected Completion
Jun 30, 2028

Story Overview

Public-facing summary of this government priority project.

Kenya embarked on an ambitious tree planting drive, aiming to plant 15 billion trees nationwide by 2032. This effort seeks to increase the country's tree and forest cover from 12.13% to 21.07%. To achieve this goal, the initiative will focus on producing 7.9 billion tree seedlings, upgrading 300 existing KFS tree nurseries, and establishing 50 new ones.

Why It Matters

How this intervention contributes to public value.

This project will Increase national tree cover from 12.13 % to 21.07%,create thousands of green jobs, reduce GHG,improve management of water tower,increase the source of timber and reduce degraded landscapes.

Implementation Progress

Current implementation status and expected completion.
Completion Status 38%

Key Benefits

Expected or realized public benefits.
Increase national tree cover from 12.13 % to 21.07%

This project will resultin increased tree coverage across the country resulting in climate change mitigation and adaptation

create thousands of green jobs

This project will result in creation of green jobs which will result to the improvement of livelihoods and conservation of environment

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