Background for climate change

Climate change is a global concern that poses a threat to the socio-economic sectors, livelihoods,

producer systems, resources and sustainable development of Bungoma County. The global

temperatures have risen above the pre-industrial level resulting in global warming and rising sea

levels. The 13th goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is to take urgent action

to combat climate change and its impacts. The 13th UN SDG aims at strengthening the resilience

and adaptive capacity with a special consideration of the least developed countries and the

vulnerable groups.

The Bungoma County Climate Action Plan seeks to address the impacts of climate change in

collaboration with the development partners and other stakeholders. The Climate Change Action

Plan is guided by the Participatory Climate Risk Assessment, Bungoma County Climate Finance

Policy 2020, Bungoma County Environmental Safeguard Policy 2019, Bungoma County Climate

Change Act 2019 and other related policies, acts and regulations to ensure the mitigation and

adaptation strategies are effective and sustainable.

The CCCAP identifies the sector priority areas; food nutrition security, water, sustainable energy,

Transport and Infrastructure, Health sanitation and human settlement, environment and Natural

Resources, where the situation analysis is done, the specific objectives and goals outlined and the

proposed mitigation strategies, whom to partner with as well as the budget needed for

implementation.

The climate change unit will spearhead the implementation of the proposed intervention strategies

with the support of the Climate Change Planning Committees, Oversight from the County Steering

Committee and other climate change stakeholders.