This three-year project aims to enhance the climate resilience and adaptive capacity of communities through empowering women and young people, supporting community-led planning and budgeting, and developing local advocacy and policy.
Key information
Timescale:
15 September 2018 to 31 August 2021
Target population:
143,721 pastoralists
Target areas:
Samburu (six wards) and Marsabit (10 wards) counties
Implementing partners:
Caritas Maralal, PACIDA, IMPACT, Docubox and IIED. We’re also working closely with the county governments of Samburu and Marsabit
Aims
- To enhance communities’ capacity to anticipate, plan and adapt to climate change in Marsabit and Samburu counties.
- To increase the capacity of community-based institutions to engage with county governments in climate change governance.
- To improve the capacity of community-based institutions in sustainable management and livelihood diversification.
- To improve the policy environment for sustainable management, livestock production and use of climate information services.
- To integrate learning and adaptation into programme management.
Achievements
- Baseline evaluation and mapping of groups completed.
- Formation of climate change committees in all the wards.
- Community involved in participatory vulnerability and capacity assessments in four wards.
- Community participation in county annual planning and budgeting in 16 wards.
- Identified youth, female and male groups for capacity-building on diversified livelihoods.
Challenges
- Resource-based conflict caused by drought in both counties.
- Drought due to two failed rainy seasons has led to migration. This has affected the community’s involvement in county planning and budgeting processes.