Community-led initiative for climate change adaptation and land rights in the arid and semiarid counties of Kenya - GEST. DIRETTA

About this project

This initiative will help address two key issues to improve the climate resilience of populations living in ASAL areas. The first relates to the need to increase the flow of funding to counties to integrate climate change into local planning and promote community initiatives that contribute to climate adaptation. The second issue concerns the necessity to accelerate the registration of community lands, as foreseen by the Community Land Act 2016, to ensure land tenure security of communities, particularly for those engaged in semi-nomadic pastoralism. The project will contribute to strengthening financial systems at the county level (County Climate Change Funds – CCCFs) to develop the local capacities required to access and absorb public and private climate finance. The initiative also includes investment funds to support actions for the sustainable management of natural resources in seven counties belonging to the economic block FCDC (Frontier Counties Development Council). Examples of eligible activities include those for the management and regeneration of rangelands and transhumance tracks, access to water, livestock feeding strategies and livestock supply chains, the marketing of typical ASAL products (aloe, incense, rubber arabica, honey, etc.), all activities that contribute to the climatic adaptation of pastoralists and their better resilience to drought. In particular, pasture restoration activities positively impact soils by limiting wind erosion, and therefore they…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 1No Poverty
• 2Zero Hunger
• 8Decent Work and Economic Growth
• 13Climate Action

Published by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development · Government

Countries

Kenya

Sectors

Financial policy and administrative managementAgricultural land resourcesAgricultural water resourcesLivestockSmall and medium-sized enterprises (SME) developmentEnvironmental policy and administrative managementRural development

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesDisaster risk reduction · Also contributesEnvironment · Main focusGood governance · Main focusTrade development · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Main focusDesertification · Also contributes

Funded by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Implemented by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

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 17 Mar 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-6-4-013066-01-1.

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