Project profile — Improving Community Resilience in Kenya's Climate Sensitive Lands

• Kenya (100.00%)

• Agriculture: Agricultural development (31120) (25.00%)
• Developmental Food Aid/Food Security Assistance: Food aid/food security programs (52010) (75.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (significant objective)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project aims to strengthen the resilience of about 700,000 people living on the most ecologically fragile lands in Kenya, particularly the most vulnerable women and young people. The World Food Program (WFP) works to strengthen the capacity of communities to improve their agricultural production and access new markets, including through land rehabilitation for longer-term harvesting and improved water management. This enables them to increase their food security and reduce hunger in an arid region where a drought often follows the harvest season. Microinsurance products for smallholder farmers, a key risk management mechanism and a way to put farmers on a path of resilience, are to be developed. The project also aims to better equip county governments (where agriculture is a deconcentrated function) to better serve small farmers and to re-direct public funds towards rural development and resilience.

The expected results for this project include: (1) enhanced livelihoods and vulnerable communities’ resilience to shocks, particularly women and youth living in Kenya’s drought-prone, climate sensitive lands; and (2) strengthened government management, including at the county level, of drought resilience programs and activities.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (December 2020) include: (1) supported the Government of Kenya, county government institutions, civil society and community-based organizations to respond more effectively to devastating droughts and floods affecting Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands; (2) increased the resilience of 30,000 food-insecure and vulnerable populations (of which 70% women) through climate-smart agricultural practices and climate risk protection/financial insurance; (3) more diversified women’s and men’s livelihoods in key value chains such as beekeeping, poultry, pasture, horticulture and aquaculture; and (4) increased employment opportunities for youth in climate-smart agribusiness in these food-insecure arid and semi-arid lands.

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