| Organization | Mandate/role | Additional roles assigned under FMTs |
| Kenya Forest Service | Forest management | − The responsible body for Forest management decisions with legal implications. − Its sanction affect forest-based projects − Donors in some instances require KFS concurrence − Endorsing Participatory Forest Management for national implementation. |
| Kenya Forestry Research Institute | Research in forestry and allied natural resources | − Piloting PFM and new IGAs |
| Kenya Wildlife Service | Wildlife management | − Spearheading programs on education and awareness − Enhance eco-tourism development in the forest − Human-wildlife conflict management |
| National Museums of Kenya | Conservation and management of Kenya’s heritage and collection of cultural, ecological and fossils exhibits, sites and monuments which are unique in Sub-Saharan Africa | − Lead in introducing new income-generating activities and other rural development projects in the community such as butterfly farming |
| Arabuko Sokoke Forest Adjacent Dwellers Association | Livelihood and lobbying and forest management | − Mobilize communities to support forest management − Lobbying and advocacy |
| Dida Forest Adjacent Area Forest Association | Livelihood and lobbying and forest management | − Enter into an agreement with KFS to pilot PFM in Kenya |
| Civil society | Livelihood development, lobbying and forest management and fund raising | − Education, livelihood and advocacy |
| Donor | Fund raising, enhancing forest management and facilitating forest management paradigm shift | − Provided funds through NGO who also provided technical support that was needed to improve forest management and specifically introducing PFM |
| Memorandum of Understanding Secretariat at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Headquarters | Ensuring MoU management paradigm works and PFM pilot | − Multi-agency committee for overseeing the management of projects in forests managed under MoUs |