This booklet provides an overview of the approaches and lessons learnt as a result of the implementation of the pilot phase of the ‘Water for Livestock Project’ in the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Kenya Red Cross Society, and Adeso. It underscores the need for important planning and management around water resource provision in drylands, and how the approaches adopted under this project could be improved on and implemented in future phases of this project and by other practitioners and development agencies operating in drylands in general.