Kenya

Region: Kenya

Kenya:

Projects
39
Resources
52
Stories
85
Resource
24th May 2017
Attributing extreme weather events (Swahili version) What if we could better prepare for hazards like flooding and heat waves by understanding the changing risks of extreme weather events? This short film, presented in Swahili, explains the process behind attribution science and its importance in preparing for the future.
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15th May 2017
Learning from Raising Risk Awareness Artist Jorge Martin captures the learnings from the Raising Risk Awareness learning event in a digitized graphic, illustrating the importance of engaging policy makers on disaster risk reduction. This emerged out of the RRA East Africa workshop where participants discussed putting into practice the science around extreme weather events.
News
4th May 2017
Switching on climate finance in Kenya This CDKN production looks at how Kenya is dealing with the challenge of generating more electricity - essential for growth and development - in climate compatible ways, and how the Government is mobilising finance from a range of sources to support this growth.
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Supporting Kenya’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution

This project assisted the Government of Kenya in its preparation for submitting its Nationally Intended Contribution.

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26th April 2017
The changing risk of extreme weather: Insights from Raising Risk Awareness Raising Risk Awareness held a three-day learning event, hosted in Nairobi, to bring together 65 members of the Raising Risk Awareness team from across the globe. A series of short films were produced on the takeaway messages of the learning event and the importance of climate science attribution.
News
10th April 2017
NDC implementation in Kenya CDKN is supporting the Government of Kenya to help accelerate progress on planning for NDC implementation, making use of the Quick-Start Guide. ClimateCare’s Tom Owino, who is leading the project team in delivering this work, explains the process.
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Water Resilience and Climate Resilience in the Horn of Africa Reference

This CDKN project explores potential opportunities in designing a comprehensive, regional water security and climate resilience programme for IGAD.

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Enhancing Direct Access to Adaptation Funding in Kenya

This project is designed to enhance Kenya’s prospects to access international sources of finance, by offering technical support to the Government of Kenya to develop an investment-grade adaptation project pipeline and proposals, a country-driven approach with a long-term programmatic view.

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27th March 2017
Making informed decisions to prepare for extreme weather events Raising Risk Awareness (RRA) brings together scientists, vulnerability experts and knowledge brokers to assess the role of climate change in extreme weather events. This presentation explains the process behind attribution science and provides information on the RRA initiative.
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27th March 2017
Kenya's drought analysis In February 2017, Kenya’s President declared a national emergency due to the extreme effects of the 2016/2017 drought. Here, we share a presentation from the Kenya Meteorological Department, which provides an analysis of Kenya's drought.
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22nd February 2017
POLICY BRIEF: Kenya: A green growth utopia? With its national long-term development blueprint, the Kenyan state recognises the overall import
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22nd February 2017
POLICY BRIEF: Green growth and energy security - Fossil fuel-endowed middle-income countries at a crossroads This policy brief synthesises the findings of political economy analyses (PEA) in the energy sect