Download or read book Financing Climate Change Adaptation in Kenya written by Lydia A. Omuko-Jung and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change adaptation has not received much attention as mitigation, with financing mechanisms concentrating climate change mitigation. This is however changing considering the current climate negotiations emphasis on adaptation being treated with the same urgency as mitigation. Kenya is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, calling for urgent adaptation measures. It has various sectorial policies that deal with adaptation. It introduced a Climate Adaptation Fund to fund adaptation at the county level and its environmental agency was accredited in March 2012 and has already submitted adaptation fund project. Based on this background, the paper examines mechanisms in place to finance adaptation, to access international adaptation fund and whether the mechanisms are sufficient. Kenya will need to put up mechanisms to promote adaptation funding, including policies that promote private investment in adaptation measures.

Download or read book From climate risk to resilience Unpacking the economic impacts of climate change in Kenya written by Detelinova, Iva and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Substantial model variability exists regarding the likely meteorological impact of climate change on Kenya, particularly with respect to future precipitation levels. Significant regional differences are expected, largely due to Kenya’s diverse climate profile. Overall, temperatures are projected to increase while future precipitation levels are highly uncertain. Climate change is expected to significantly affect coastal areas, including because of sea level rise risks, stronger winds, and an overall warmer and drier climate. This will likely harm important ecosystems, including wetlands, mangroves, and coral reefs. Some models project that arid and semi-arid areas may become drier and hotter, which would exacerbate preexisting water scarcity and agricultural challenges for the already vulnerable communities living there. That said, these projections are not corroborated by all models. The climate change impact on other areas, particularly south and west of Mount Kenya, could generally be positive, as it would provide even better conditions for agriculture. The key climate change risk for Kenya is from extreme events, in particular droughts and floods. The frequency and intensity of such events is likely to increase because of climate change. They also often lead to adverse knock-on effects, such as soil erosion, land degradation, and pest breakouts. Overall, Kenya’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) (2020) estimates that between 2010 and 2020, adverse climate change-related events led to annual socioeconomic losses of 3–5 percent of total gross domestic product (GDP).

Download or read book Mapping Climate Adaptation Finance in Kenya s Devolved Governance System written by Judith Mulwa and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyses the four main types of expenditures of both national and international sources of public funds by the Kenyan ministries based on both Kenyan national budget data and the most relevant disbursement for financing climate activities. Kenya is among the first countries to develop policies, strategies and institutional frameworks for climate action, creating a policy and legal environment to advance an effective climate change response, similarly, Makueni County (in Kenya) has also enacted county-level regulation on climate change as part of the implementation of the national agenda on climate change. The climate-related expenditures that were tracked represent 18% of total government development expenditures for the fiscal year 2017/18. The research team uses the case of Makueni County to understand levels of devolution by analysing the streams of income from the national budget to the county budget that are channelled towards climate-related activities at the county level. Preliminary analysis shows a strong correlation between climate-friendly policies and the flow of funds for climate change at the county level. Other factors include the establishment of a local climate change fund through the County Climate Change Fund mechanism (CCCF). These factors have enabled the counties to create, access and use climate finance to build communities' resilience and reduce vulnerabilities to climate change in a coordinated way. This analysis is an initial step of the four-year comparative research programme, GAP, looking at the governance of climate change adaptation finance in the Kenya compared to Tanzania. The working paper serves to lay a foundation for further in- depth research.

Download or read book KENYA S CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION FINANCE STRATEGY STATUS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH written by African Centre for Technology Studies and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Devolution of Donor Funded Climate Change Adaptation Finance written by Per Tidemand and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This working paper analyses the nature of international adaptation finance received in Kenya and Tanzania, with particular emphasis on the extent to which the projects were devolved and thus potentially more responsive to the priorities for climate change adaptation as determined by local governments (LGs) and communities. The analysis is based on the OECD database of projects in the period 2013-2019 with projects selected based on their financial value, measured as 'adaptationrelated development finance'. During this period Tanzania received USD 2.0 billion as adaptation-related development finance, whereas Kenya received USD 3.3 billion. In each country, the research team selected the most valuable projects that together constitute 70% of total adaptation-related development finance in the two countries. A method for analysis of the project documents to measure degree of devolution was developed with three main parameters: (i) the extent to which finance was managed through local government accounts; (ii) the extent to which the projects in the respective national budgets were considered devolved; and (iii) the extent to which funding was discretionary and using of participatory planning arrangements for management of the funds. Given Kenya's greater emphasis on devolution, its fiscal strengths, and the autonomy of its counties, when compared to Tanzanian local governments, it was assumed that adaptation-related development finance would be relatively more devolved in Kenya than Tanzania. However, preliminary analysis suggests otherwise. The analysis also suggests that projects classified by development partners as 'adaptation-related development finance' in several cases exaggerate levels of funding and only contribute marginally to improved local governance of climate adaption activities. This analysis is an initial step of a four-year comparative research programme on the governance of climate change adaptation finance in the two countries. The article raises key issues for future in- depth country and local research.

Download or read book A review of Uganda s national policies relevant to climate change adaptation and mitigation written by Abwoli Y Banana and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is expected to bring new challenges and opportunities for the livelihoods of rural communities in Uganda, where more than 80% of the population depends on rain-fed agriculture. The purpose of this review was to analyze national policies on climate change adaptation, agriculture, forests, management of forested and agroforested landscape ecosystems and their goods and services, and the roles of stakeholders in the national arena. Recognizing the role of forest cover in climate change mitigation and adaptation, this review is based on stakeholder engagement and analysis of published literature on the policy, institutional and socioeconomic drivers of forest cover change around Mount Elgon. The bulk of Uganda’s forests are on land under private ownership and deforestation has occurred mainly in such forests. Several national laws and international conventions ratified by Uganda offer a framework under which forests are managed. Management of protected forests is shared between central and local authorities. Several natural resource policies are likely to have significant unintended impacts that may enable or limit the adaptation of stakeholders and ecosystems to climate change. The current climate change policy, which is an overarching document that addresses climate change in Uganda, suggests that policy responses, either sector specific or crosscutting in nature, be harmonized in order to better address the challenges associated with climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Download or read book Kenya written by International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Climate Module of the Public Investment Management Assessment for Kenya reveals strong performance in climate-aware planning and coordination. However, the analysis identifies challenges incorporating climate sensitivity in the project appraisal, selection, budgeting, and fiscal risk management processes. Implementing targeted modifications in these areas, such as enhancing project appraisal and selection criteria to include climate impacts, improving mechanisms for tracking climate expenditures, and expanding fiscal risk analysis to cover climate-related risks, could strengthen Kenya's public investment management practices and promote greater climate resilience.

Download or read book A review of Kenya s national policies relevant to climate change adaptation and mitigation written by Paul O Ongugo and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change will impact many sectors of the economy: rural agriculture, biodiversity, hydrology, etc. Farmers are particularly affected since agriculture, livestock, fisheries, horticulture and agroforestry depend on specific soil, rainfall and temperature conditions. Mt. Elgon’s ecosystem is well known for its agricultural production hence our choice to study how the implementation of environmental policies affect the livelihoods of local communities.

Download or read book Organizational and Institutional Issues in Climate Change Adaptation and Risk Management written by Catherine Ragasa and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change places demand on existing governance structures to reform and work more effectively than in the past. In response, greater attention to and funding for climate change adaptation—including the efforts of National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs), the Least Developed Country Fund, the Special Climate Change Fund, the Adaptation Fund, and the E.U. Global Climate Change Alliance—provide an opportunity for institutional, organizational, and human-capacity strengthening. This study was conducted to explore the challenges and opportunities for building human, organizational, and institutional capacity for more effective climate change adaptation in developing countries. It is part of a larger research project titled “Enhancing Women’s Assets to Manage Risk under Climate Change: Potential for Group-Based Approaches,” which is being conducted to help organizations better understand ways in which development projects can assist rural households in adapting to and managing the effects of climate change. This report provides some reflections and insights on the level of awareness, practices, and organizational and institutional issues being faced by countries as they adapt to climate change, based on interviews with 87 practitioners working in government agencies, local organizations, international organizations, and think thanks reporting involvement in climate change adaptation. Data were collected in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mali using both an e-survey platform and face-to-face interviews. Responses reveal active work within these organizations on climate change adaptation and emphasize their important role in the countries’ efforts to address and adapt to climate change. Responses also reveal strong awareness among these organizations of different aspects of climate change adaptation along the different stages in a climate change adaptation project cycle, which may be a reflection of the active discussions and awareness campaigns during NAPA development in these countries. However, despite the awareness and presence of national strategies and action plans, there seem to be no explicit and clearly defined policy and strategy within these organizations outlining their role in and contribution to the national and collective efforts and, more importantly, no explicit and measurable targets and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system to track progress and outcomes over time. Reported capacity gaps can be grouped into two categories: training needs and institutional challenges. In many organizations, there is limited awareness of and emphasis on the need for participation of target groups and beneficiaries during design and planning of climate change adaptation projects. In addition, many respondents reported a need for greater attention to issues related to profitability, financial sustainability, and market access from climate change project design to M&E. Finally, respondents emphasized that climate change projects should pay greater attention to gender, social, political, and cultural issues in their design and implementation. Reflections of respondents also highlighted the need for organizational capacity strengthening for those local organizations working in and providing services to rural communities, and for promoting a culture of impact and M&E within these organizations, in addition to the reported training needs in climate change management and in gender and social analysis. While this report provides some insights, further empirical analyses are needed to discover more details on strategies that could help trigger mind-set and organizational culture change and to capture the complexity of organizational and institutional issues hindering climate change adaptation efforts that aim at reducing vulnerability and contributing to development outcomes.

Download or read book To what Extent are Multilateral Development Banks Integrating Climate Change Adaptation Finance in Their Development Finance The Case of World Bank and African Development Bank in Kenya written by African Centre for Technology Studies and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Innovative Financial Instruments for Climate Change Adaptation The Case Study of Kenya Microfinance for Water Service Project written by African Centre for Technology Studies and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change written by Katrina Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out how to ensure that adaptation efforts are socially and environmentally sustainable, contributing to poverty reduction as well as confronting the processes driving vulnerability. Over $100bn a year is pledged to help finance adaptation projects via the The Climate Adaptation Fund. These projects and their funding played a central role in the latest climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, ensuring that adaptation to climate change will be an international priority over the next few decades. Many existing adaptation projects are however, not environmentally or socially sustainable. Adaptation projects that focus on reducing specific climate sensitivities can, even if bringing benefits, adversely affect vulnerable groups and create social inequity, or even unintentionally undermine environmental integrity. Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change examines how adaptation to climate change (types of measures, policy frameworks, and local household strategies) interacts with social and environmental sustainability. A mixture of conceptual and case study-based papers draw on research from Europe, Asia and Africa. It will be of interest to all researchers and policymakers in climate change adaptation and development.

Download or read book Climate Change and Select Financial Instruments An Overview of Opportunities and Challenges for Sub Saharan Africa written by Anna Belianska and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the region in the world most vulnerable to climate change despite its cumulatively emitting the least amount of greenhouse gases. Substantial financing is urgently needed across the economy—for governments, businesses, and households—to support climate change adaptation and mitigation, which are critical for advancing resilient and green economic development as well as meeting commitments under the Paris Agreement. Given the immensity of SSA’s other development needs, this financing must be in addition to existing commitments on development finance. There are many potential ways to raise financing to meet adaptation and mitigation needs, spanning from domestic revenue mobilization to various forms of international private financing. Against this backdrop, SSA policymakers and stakeholders are exploring sources of financing for climate action that countries may not have used substantially in the past. This Staff Climate Note presents some basic information on opportunities and challenges associated with these financing instruments.

Download or read book Transformational Innovation for Financing Climate Change in Africa written by Uduak Edet and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2022 in the subject Politics - Topic: International development, , language: English, abstract: This study will focus on the existing funding mechanisms for climate finance, with an emphasis on the Green Climate Fund (GCF). It then explores other innovative strategies for generating climate finance within Africa and the importance of complementary finance is identified as the basis for a major transformational innovation. Many of world’s most exposed countries to climate change are in Africa, so the focus is on Nigeria. This is because the country’s international obligations towards climate change and its mechanisms for compliance are interestingly complicated. Significant financial resources are required to drive the reduction of greenhouse emissions and adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change. Mobilized from public, private or alternative sources, Climate finance can be defined as the local, national or transnational funding set up to address climate change. However, the solution may not be in the finance, but in the innovation so this notion has laid the groundwork for this paper.

Download or read book Climate Finance Toolkit for Europe and Central Asia written by Celikyilmaz, G., Arguello, C. and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Climate Finance toolkit was prepared by the Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, jointly with the United Nations Environment Programme Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, as part of the efforts both organizations systematically conduct to support countries to access scaled-up sources of climate finance. This document aims at compiling relevant and up to date information on different sources of climate finance, through which countries in Europe and Central Asia could identify opportunities to finance their objectives and goals defined in the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) submitted to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In this sense, it includes information on the overarching architecture for climate financing at global level and the key conceptual framework related to climate finance and provides detailed briefs for the most relevant sources of finance with operations in this region.

Download or read book Financing Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Developing Countries written by Montek S. Ahluwalia and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kenya Adaptation to Climate Change in the Arid Lands Anticipating Adapting to and Coping with Climate Risks in Kenya Operational Recommendations for KACCAL written by and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: