When Kijabe Group Ranch set aside its conservation area, it also zoned the remainder of the Ranch into grazing areas and settlement areas. It has now embarked upon an enlightened process of re-zoning with the intention of further concentrating settlement to free up more grazing lands, over which it is implementing a pattern of seasonal grazing rotation. At the same time the Ranch is undertaking a radical de-stocking of livestock, cutting by two thirds the numbers of cattle, sheep and goats on the land. The results are likely to be quite remarkable both in economic development and in conservation terms.

In July 2005 the Ranch entered into a 25 year Agreement with Regenesis Ltd to manage its tourism business and its Conservancy. Fees are payable to the Ranch under this agreement and since January 2006 the Ranch has been receiving income from this commercial enterprise. All guests at the Sanctuary at Ol Lentille pay a Community Conservation Fee. This income is split between the Ranch and The Kijabe Trust. Before the advent of The Sanctuary at Ol Lentille, the average income at Kijabe was probably less than US$3.00 per day.

The Group Ranch is a legal entity in Kenya. It has an elected Committee to manage Ranch affairs, and a growing Women's Group. The Ranch adopted its first formal written Constitution in November 2006. And it is now developing a Community Investment Plan to guide decision-making and to provide for accountability and transparency on the use of the income from Regenesis and other community enterprises.

Three members of the Ranch are also nominated to be Trustees of The Kijabe Trust. The Ranch Committee, the first to recognise their own limitations in an increasingly complex world, have expressed a desire to get some business and financial education. The Kijabe Trust will work with them to secure funding and expertise for such a programme.

Since early 2006 the many women's groups on the ranch have come together, developed a written constitution, appointed post holders and completed the complex process of opening bank accounts to start up diverse economic projects including an organized bead making project, an egg project and the building of a craft village on or adjacent to the Ranches are a nursery school, primary school and clinic. The Kijabe Trust supports these by donating materials and equipment, paying teachers’ salaries, and supporting planning and governance.