This Climate Change Action Plan identifies sectoral adaptation needs and also details specific sectoral measures, key implementing partners and indicative costs to address the devastating impacts of droughts and floods, and the negative effects of climate change on vulnerable groups, including women, older members of society, persons with disabilities, children, youth, and members of minority and marginalised communities, in order to achieve sustainable development benefits in the County. The Action Plan identifies the following objectives for the targeted priority areas: reducing risks to communities and infrastructure resulting from climate- related disasters such as droughts and floods; increasing food and nutrition security through enhanced productivity and resilience of the agricultural sector; enhancing resilience of the water sector by ensuring access to and efficient use of water for agriculture, manufacturing, domestic, wildlife and other uses; improving forest cover to 10% of total land area; rehabilitating degraded lands, including rangelands; increasing resilience of the wildlife and tourism sector; reducing incidence of waterborne diseases, malaria and other diseases expected to increase because of climate change; promoting climate resilient buildings and settlements, including urban centres and coastal areas; encouraging climate-resilient solid waste management; promoting renewable energy development; reducing exposure to climate change impacts on pastoral and agro pastoral community members. Concerning priority actions for the various sectors, the Action Plan describes the following: investments in community-led protection of water resources; implementing a comprehensive waste management policy and strategy to reduce pressure on the environment and ecosystems; conservation of protected areas; increasing livestock productivity and production in a sustainable manner; capacity building on breeding to increase production; enhancing indigenous knowledge; strengthening vaccinations programmes across county and early warning systems; ensuring equity by providing targeted gender interventions and specific measures to protect vulnerable populations in all sectors; improving afforestation, reforestation, tree planting measures.
Kenya · 2023-01-01