| Responsible Agency/Department |
Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources |
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| International Partners |
DFID (Government of UK) |
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| Key vulnerabilities addressed |
- Drought is the prime recurrent natural disaster in Kenya,
causing severe crop and livestock losses, famine and population displacement
and having an impact on water availability.
- Excessive flooding occurs 3 to 4 times a year, especially
riverine floods, flood-related fatalities causing 60% of disaster victims and
an upsurge in waterborne or sanitation-related diseases and epidemies, and
damaging critical infrastructure and transport networks that supports the
national economy.
- Sea level rise (and coastal erosion) is likely to render
more acute the current water supply and salinization problem, as freshwater
aquifers are contaminated with saline water, affecting tourism, fisheries, shipping
and port activities.
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| Priority actions |
- Mainstream climate change adaptation into County Integrated
Development Plans and other county plans.
- Enhance implementation of an energy generation mix plan that
increases the resilience of the current and future energy systems to the
impacts of future climate variability and change.
- Support innovation and development of appropriate
technologies and capacity that promote climate resilient development.
- Integrate climate change adaptation into public sector
reforms.
- Enhance adaptive capacity and resilience of the informal
sector.
- Enhance climate proofing of infrastructure.
- Mainstreaming climate change adaptation in land reforms.
- Mainstream climate change adaptation in education (formal,
non formal and informal) and training.
- Strengthen integration of climate change adaptation into the
health sector.
- Mainstream climate change adaptation in the environment
sector.
- Mainstreaming of climat Enhance the adaptive capacity of the
population, urbanisation, and housing sector. e change adaptation in the water
sector.
- Strengthen the adaptive capacity of vulnerable groups*
(women, orphans and vulnerable children, the elderly, and persons with
disability).
- Enhance the resilience of the tourism value chain.
- Enhance the resilience of the agricultural value chain.
- Enhance the resilience of the livestock value chain.
- Enhance the resilience of the fisheries value chain.
- Create enabling environment for the resilience of private
sector investment.
- Integrate climate change adaptation into the oil and mineral
resources sector.
- Fast track the implementation of the Ending Drought
Emergencies (EDE) Common Programme Framework.
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| Main Policies Referenced in the NAP |
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