County officials drawn from different departments and USAID implementing partners yesterday concluded the 4th Pause and Reflect session for the FY 2021/2022 organised by the Adaptation Consortium (ADA). The team led by Pauline Makutsa Program Manager ADA Consortium visited Moi County Referral Hospital – Voi for a study tour on the impact of USAID Stawisha Pwani in strengthening County health…
FSD Kenya led Consortium evaluates Taita Taveta’s potential to access the Green Bond Market Taita Taveta County is earmarked for green bond potential assessment, a move geared towards unlocking additional resources for mitigating ravaging effects of climate change through green financing, Financial Sector Deepening Trust Kenya (FSD Kenya) has said. According to FSD Kenya, the county is among 9 counties…
Climate resilient development of urban areas need to take into account current and future climate risks and be inclusive as far as planning is concerned. The speed of urbanization in Africa is increasing and remains largely informal, uncontrolled, and unsupported by the continent’s infrastructure. More and more people are moving to towns and cities, with limited access to urban services…
Water investments in the drylands are critical for water and food security, where access to water is essential for domestic and productive uses, including livestock production and rain-fed cultivation. Yet, ensuring the sustainability of water investments in the drylands remains an ongoing challenge, with evidence of approximately 20-40% failure rates of rural water supplies across East Africa and beyond. Despite…
The County Climate Change Fund (CCCF) mechanism supports county governments to mainstream climate change in planning and budgeting; access climate finance from different sources and; strengthen public participation in the management and use of those funds. The CCCF mechanism was successfully piloted in five counties — Isiolo, Garissa, Kitui, Makueni and Wajir between 2011 and 2019 — and is now…
This publication offers snippets of stories from our work with four pilot counties on the Devolution and locally-led Climate Disaster Risk Management Project. We hope that these stories, giving a glimpse of our collective journey through the project’s pilot phase, will motivate county governments, stakeholders, the national government and other development actors to facilitate, invest in, and support the mainstreaming…
These guidelines are written for counties interested in setting up a County Climate Change Fund (CCCF). After six years of successful piloting and testing, the CCCF mechanism is being scaled out nationwide, steered by the Ministry of Devolution and ASAL Areas through the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA). The purpose of the guidelines is to ensure that counties harmonise their…
COUNTY CLIMATE CHANGE FUND MECHANISM Newsletter Issue 1/Feb 2020 Summary CS0 stakeholders adopt the Isiolo County Climate Change Fund Regulations 2019 KSG validates the County Climate Change Fund Curriculum Vihiga and Tharaka-Nithi legislate their CCCF Act How can we incorporate local knowledge into climate planning and policy? …Maps! Seven wards in Kitui prepare for the scale-out of the CCCF investments…
The County Climate Change Fund (CCCF) Mechanism is a devolved climate finance mechanism that facilitates the flow of climate finance to counties and enables public participation in its management as demonstrated in five ASAL counties of Isiolo, Garissa, Kitui, Makueni and Wajir. As part of the scale-out to Kwale, Narok and Siaya counties, a contextualization study under the World Bank-supported…
For long, elements of climate risk management have been pursued in Kenya by various national and county government institutions as well as non-state actors without an effective framework for coordination and appropriate guidance. The Adaptation Consortium (ADA), under the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA), sought to remedy this scenario by working with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to develop a Climate…