Validation of Participatory Climate Risk Assessment and Development of Local Adaptation Strategies for Kisumu

By Matilda Atieno Kisumu County experiences extreme climate events that are becoming more common and severe, causing climate vulnerability, bearing in mind its tropical climate, which ensures two rainy seasons a year, following an ideal condition for a healthy and prosperous agricultural sector. As climate change makes an impact across the county, residents have to
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Kisumu County Rolls Out the Participatory Climate Risk Assessment Process

By Matilda Atieno The County government in partnership with World bank has rolled out a week long Participatory Climate Risk Assessment (PCRA) process spearheaded by the County Technical Working Group (TWG) including state and non state actors. The process that is running concurrently across all the sub- counties aims at identifying locally-led climate interventions through
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Accelerating Gender Mainstreaming in Climate Change Action: Building the Capacities of Seme Community actors       

                       By Matilda Atieno The County Government of Kisumu and Transparency International has made substantial progress in mainstreaming gender in climate action with a focus on capacity building to understand the linkages between gender and climate change and the tangible tools and approaches that encourage gender-responsive adaptation. Kisumu is highly vulnerable to the impacts of
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Upscaling Climate Risk Assessment

By Matilda Atieno Kisumu County and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) have organized a multi sectoral training that will support the county on Participatory Climate Risk Assessment (PCRA), a process that prepares institutions to access funding from Financing Locally-Led Climate Action (FLLOCA) towards climate resilience approaches. Climate change has become a policy priority world wide, and
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Plans To Venture into Green Bond to Help Kisumu Secure Green Future

By Matilda Atieno The County Directorate of Climate Change in partnership with the ADA Consortium, FSD Kenya, Capital Markets Authority, Agusto & Co and Nairobi Securities Exchange convened a workshop that brought together public institutions and private CSOs in climate change and environmental sectors to deliberate on the overview of green bond assets and projects
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Ward committees set up to oversee climate change action plans in Kisumu

By Matilda Atieno The County Government of Kisumu rolled out a vetting exercise for the formation of the Ward Climate Change Planning Committee intended to be representative of the community with different interest groups given a seat at the table. According to the Kisumu County Climate Change Act, 2020 section 18, the Climate Change Directorate
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Ongoing Partnership and Implementation of USAID-Funded Global Labor Program

The County Executive Committee Member for Trade, Tourism, Industry, and Marketing Ms. Farida Salim joined the USAID implementing organization – Sightsavers in a meeting that highlighted key areas of inclusion in Kisumu which included, trade, diversity, equity and accessibility. The meeting also shared a brief on the global labour Program and the purpose of the
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More ECD Centers Holds Promise to Boost Early Childhood Education

By Matilda Atieno The county minister for Education, Mr. John Awiti today received two complete classrooms for the Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centres at Olwale and St Alloys Gem Primary schools in North and central Nyakach at a tune of 1.4 Million and 1.8 Million respectively. The projects funded by the World Vision program at
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County Focusses on Local Roads in Bid to Boost Accessibility

By Nancy Juma The County Department of Infrastructure, Public Works and Energy led by the CEC Hon. Salmon Orimba has today officially launched the 2022-2023 Machine Based Road Maintenance Programme for Muhoroni Sub County in Chemelil Tamu Ward and Muhoroni – Koru Ward. Accompanied by other County officials, teachers and students of Achego Girls Secondary School,
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