Objective: The programme will support climate-vulnerable communities targeting men, women, and youth including people with disabilities in 250,000 households in Elgeyo Marakwet, Narok, Kwale, and Tana River counties in Kenya to improve sustainability and resilience to the ecosystem’s goods and services and increase household resilience and adaptive capacity.

The programme goal is resilient and productive socio-ecological systems by 2052 through landscape restoration, livelihoods building for 250,000 smallholder farmers and pastoralists (men, women and youth) covering 250,000 hectares of land in four target counties in Kenya.

This programme will help build substantial carbon sinks and sequestration opportunities, allowing viable returns to both small-holder farmers and investors.

The programme will seek to achieve this through:

1. Increased resilience and diversified livelihoods for smallholder households;
2. Improved sustainable income for communities from resilient climate smart value chains;
3. Diversified and sustainable income streams through carbon market engagements;
4. Strengthened institutional, knowledge sharing and regulatory systems/framework (policies) for climate-responsive planning, development and carbon trading.

Beneficiaries: 250,000 Households

Objective: To increase incomes and reduce poverty for 8,000 cassava smallholder farmers by promoting efficient and well-functioning seed systems and markets.

The Cassava Market Access Project is an upscaling initiative from Strengthening the Competitiveness of Cassava Value Chain Project in Kenya funded by the European Union. The project will cover Busia, Homabay, Kisumu, and Migori counties in Kenya. The project’s objective is to increase incomes and reduce poverty for 8,000 cassava smallholder farmers by promoting efficient and well-functioning seed systems and markets.

Beneficiaries: 8,000 (6,000 female, 2,000 male, 1,000 youth)

Objective: 10,000 HHs in Baringo County adopt productive, climate-resilient and nutrition sensitive agriculture and livestock production strategies. Crop and livestock productivity is increased for 10,000 pastoralist and agro-pastoralist households, 10,000 households are equipped with improved skills and knowledge in household nutrition and hygiene, participatory land utilisation and management is improved in the target areas, increased access to markets for 10,000 pastoralist and agro-pastoralist households, and improved collaboration between stakeholders within Baringo County.

The development objective of the project is to promote secure and sustainable livelihoods amongst individual households that are prone to drought in Baringo County by enabling them to spread their risk and prevent production asset loss thereby increasing their income. The pathway to change is premised on mitigating the effect of climate change and building community resilience.

Key strategies to mitigating the effect of climate change and building community resilience will focus on:

• Increasing agricultural productivity through provision of widely-accessible inputs and extension services to increase crops and livestock production;
• Increasing Household Nutrition;
• Improving land use to ensure better utilization of high and medium potential lands through water and soil conservation techniques;
• Increasing markets and market access for agricultural produce.

60,000 members of agro-pastoralist and pastoralist HHs