Strengthening Early Warning and Early Action Systems in Kenya

About this project

This proposal seeks to strengthen the disaster risk reduction (DRR) national coordination platform in Kenya to inform coherent DRR, sustainable development, climate change adaptation measures through building resident capacity, including for early warning and early action systems. The project will establish a national Coordination Cell in Kenya, linked to the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) Climate Predictions and Applications Centre (ICPAC) Disaster Operations Centre (DOC) in Nairobi and the African Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Action System (AMHEWAS) Situation Room at the African Union Commission (AUC) in Addis Ababa. This will ensure coordinated early warning and early action to reduce disaster impacts and loss and damage in Kenya, as well as enhanced risk information to promote risk informed policy and investment decisions. The intervention will seek to build on the following previous initiatives, implemented by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Regional Office for Africa through the contribution of the Italian government: • UNDRR supported the establishment of the ICPAC DOC and IGAD Institutional and Operational Framework for Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Early Action which is aligned to the AUC Continental Framework. • UNDRR strengthened impact-based flood monitoring and forecasting capabilities for ICPAC. One expert consultant was recruited by UNDRR and, after 24 months of training on the job, transferred with a coord…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 9Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
• 11Sustainable Cities and Communities
• 13Climate Action
• 16Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Published by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development · Government

Countries

Kenya

Sectors

Disaster Risk Reduction

Focus

Disaster risk reduction · Main focusEnvironment · Main focusGood governance · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Main focus

Funded by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Implemented by

UNDRR - The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Accountable

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Published by AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 7 Jul 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-6-4-012944-01-0.

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