“Empowering Communities to Protect the Environment, while Securing their Lands, Livelihoods and Peace”
During 2019, KESAN and Karen communities faced a number of challenges, especially due to the continuation of armed conflicts in Northern Karen State. Despite the formidable obstacles, each of KESAN’s programs was able to achieve a large number of significant achievements during the past year. Following a summary of the major 2019 contextual changes, the rest of this report will provide information about the activities that were implemented during 2019 under each of KESAN’s seven programmes- with case studies highlighting some of the most successful interventions- followed by a summary of KESAN’s organizational development in 2019 and then looking ahead to 2020.
