Galgallo Roba Guyo

Galgallo Roba Guyo is an environmental conservationist, Indigenous Peoples researcher and development consultant with over seven years of experience at the intersection of Nature-based Solutions, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, biodiversity-based value chains, Indigenous knowledge, climate resilience and sustainable livelihoods, particularly across Northern Kenya.

He is the Founder and Director of Marsabit Botanical Garden (MBG), an Indigenous-led conservation and learning initiative. Through MBG he works with Indigenous and pastoralist communities to conserve native, endangered, medicinal and culturally significant plant species, restore degraded dryland landscapes, strengthen seed systems, and develop nature-based enterprises around resources such as aloe, gums and resins, moringa, honey, and medicinal and aromatic plants. His work helps communities move beyond selling raw natural resources towards value addition, processing, enterprise development and market access, guided by Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) principles, Indigenous Peoples’ rights and environmental and social safeguards.

From December 2024 to June 2025, Galgallo served as a Consultant with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), supporting multi-stakeholder partnerships for biodiversity-based value chains in Marsabit County. He facilitated consultations with government, private-sector and community actors, conducted value-chain analysis for local gums and resins, and organised stakeholder workshops. Earlier, as Director of the Indigenous Community Support Program, he led initiatives on Indigenous culture and traditional knowledge, conservation, climate resilience, peacebuilding, and community capacity building on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Nagoya Protocol.