Project Kenjiga
Cultivating the Organisation Behind the Mission
Project Kenjiga is our internal organisational development initiative dedicated to nurturing BCEF's culture, collective leadership, organisational wellbeing, and long-term resilience. While our public programmes work with communities and landscapes, Kenjiga focuses on the community within our organisation.
Why Kenjiga?
Many organisations invest heavily in external projects while giving little attention to the people, relationships, and systems that make those projects possible.
Project Kenjiga exists to ask a different question:
What happens when an organisation becomes a place where people can thrive not just perform?
Rather than measuring success only through productivity or outputs, Kenjiga creates intentional spaces where our team can collectively explore trust, leadership, wellbeing, collaboration, learning, and organisational design.
We believe these conversations are not distractions from our mission—they are essential to
What We Explore
Project Kenjiga brings together team members across BCEF to explore topics such as:
- Organisational culture and shared values
- Collective leadership and distributed decision-making
- Team wellbeing and emotional resilience
- Learning and reflective practice
- Power, hierarchy, and healthy collaboration
- Systems thinking and organisational design
- Conflict transformation and dialogue
- Experimenting with new ways of working together
These explorations often take the form of retreats, learning circles, reflection sessions, workshops, collaborative design spaces, and organisational experiments.
A Living Organisational Laboratory
Project Kenjiga also serves as BCEF's organisational innovation space.
Here we prototype new structures, test better ways of collaborating, redesign internal systems, strengthen communication
Beyond Hierarchy
Kenjiga is one of the ways BCEF intentionally works to reduce unnecessary hierarchy and unhealthy power dynamics.
While every organisation requires roles and accountability, we believe leadership should be distributed rather than concentrated.
The initiative creates spaces where every team member can contribute ideas, question assumptions, take ownership, and participate in shaping the organisation's future.
Leadership becomes a shared practice not simply a position.
Our Belief
We believe that organisations can become places of learning, belonging, creativity, and care not simply workplaces.
Project Kenjiga exists because the future of conservation depends not only on healthier ecosystems, but also on healthier organisations capable of sustaining people, relationships, and purpose over time.
Because before we can transform landscapes, we must continually learn how to transform the way we work together.
