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…
The report presents a review of the current legal framework for the County Climate Change Fund (CCCF) mechanism. The review was commissioned by the Adaptation Consortium (Ada), and covers the five counties of Garissa, Isiolo, Kitui, Makueni, and Wajir, where the Consortium has piloted the mechanism since 2012. It also analyses key policy and legal frameworks at the national level…
The inventory summarises key information on the situation before the investment, after the investment and the type of benefits communities and government are accruing from establishing the CCCF mechanism. Download File
Climate Finance is critical to Kenya’s full realisation of the policy goals as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 2015 Paris Agreement and the African Union Agenda 2063. For developing countries, such as Kenya, where impacts of climate change are severe, climate finance remains critical to catalyse actions through mitigation and adaptation. Kenya is one of the…
The Kenya County Climate Change Fund (CCCF) mechanism, initially piloted as the Climate Adaptation Fund in Isiolo and subsequently scaled out to Garissa, Kitui, Makueni and Wajir Counties, is a pioneering mechanism to facilitate the flow of climate finance to county governments and simultaneously empower local communities, through strengthening public participation in the management and use of those funds, to…
The National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) hosted the first Kenya National Policy Dialogue on Decentralised Climate Finance in Nairobi on 18th October 2018. The dialogue, which was based on the experiences of the County Climate Change Fund (CCCF) mechanism, provided an opportunity for the Adaptation (Ada) Consortium to share and reflect with key national level stakeholders on the evidence and…
Since 2013, the Adaptation Consortium has been supporting County Governments of Makueni, Garissa, Kitui, Isiolo and Wajir to pilot the County Climate Change Fund (CCCF) mechanism that aims at mainstreaming climate change into county planning and budgeting processes, and prepare counties to access climate finance by putting in place a legal framework and related structures to help mobilise climate finance…