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Women from the marginalised Maasai community during the ToPP project engagement. [Juliet Omelo, Standard]
For years, Caroline Oduory watched development and conservation projects come and go in Kwa Punda village in Jomvu on Kenya's Coast.
Meetings were held, officials spoke and decisions were made, but ordinary residents rarely had a say on issues affecting the land and natural resources they depended on.
"Many projects have come to our area before, but they never reached the people on the ground. You would hear that stakeholders had met, but ordinary community members were rarely involved," Caroline recalls.
