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Kenya’s Climate Change Act 2016, obligates national and sub-national governments to mainstream climate change responses into development planning, decision-making and implementation. To enhance the capacity of the public service to comprehensively address climate change challenges, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and relevant stakeholders developed a training program on “Climate Change Policy, Planning and Budgeting at National and County Level”. The program targets middle level managers and technical government officers involved in policy formulation, planning, budgeting and implementation of programs in sectors vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The paper presents the design and development process of the training program which was an iterative, multi-stakeholder consultative process. This includes the development of the curriculum and training manual and describes the inaugural training program where twenty seven national and sub-national government officers were successfully trained. The training program enhanced the capacities of national and sub-national government officers to understand climate change, its impacts and response actions and will enable them support planning and decision making for climate change response actions. This will form a significant contribution towards implementation of the Climate Change Act (2016) and Kenya’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). Experiences and lessons learnt will inform efforts to develop similar targeted climate change training program and contribute to capacity building efforts to improve climate change response.
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Ministry of Environment and Natural Resource (MENR) 2017. Climate Change Policy, Planning and Budgeting at National and County Level: Facilitators Manual.
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Republic of Kenya (13th May 2016) Climate Change Act. Nairobi. Government of Kenya.
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The Climate Change Directorate (CCD) established by the Climate Change Act 2016, is the lead agency of the Kenya Government on climate change plans and actions to deliver operational coordination. It is under the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.
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The Kenya School of Government (KSG) established by the KSG Act (No. 9 of 2012), is a State Corporation established to offer management training, research, consultancy and advisory services to the public sector. KSG offers services to both National and County (sub national) governments, private sector players as well as those from the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) http://www.ksg.ac.ke/.
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The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) is an Institute established through the KICD Act No. 4 of 2013 of the laws of Kenya to conduct research and develop curricular for all levels of education. The Institute also develops print and electronic curriculum support materials, initiates and conducts curriculum based research, organizing and conducting in-service and orientation programmes for curriculum implementers https://www.kicd.ac.ke/.
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The Council of Governors (COG) is composed of the Governors of the forty-seven counties and its main functions are the promotion of visionary leadership; sharing of best practices and; offer a collective voice on policy issues; promote inter—county consultations; encourage and initiate information sharing on the performance of County Governments with regard to the execution of their functions; collective consultation on matters of interest to County Governments http://www.cog.go.ke/.
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UNFCCC 2015. Paris Agreement https://unfccc.int/files/meetings/paris_nov_2015/application/pdf/paris_agreement_english_pdf.
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Capacity building and capacity development are two phrases often used interchangeably and understandably assumed to mean the same thing. Literature however argues that there is infact a clear distinction between the two with capacity building implying there is no capacity to begin with and capacity development acknowledging existing capacities and focusing on strengthening what is already there. Capacity development is a more holistic, collaborative approach that encourages ownership (Freeman 2010).
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UNESCO and UNFCCC 2016. Action for EMPOWERMENT Guidelines for accelerating solutions through education, training and public awareness.
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SGD Target 13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg13.
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The Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development (LECRD) Project funded by USAID through UNDP and implemented through The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources aims to support Kenya’s efforts to pursue long-term, transformative development as well as accelerate sustainable climate resilient economic growth, while slowing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions.
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The World Climate Simulation is a role playing exercise of the UN climate change negotiations for groups. It is unique in that it uses an interactive computer model to rapidly analyse the results of the mock-negotiations during the event. https://www.climateinteractive.org/programs/world-climate/.
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The County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP) is a 5 year plan that shall inform the county’s annual budget and shall reflect the strategic midterm priorities of the county governments. The CIDP will contain specific goals and objectives, a costed implementation plan, provisions for monitoring and evaluation and clear reporting mechanisms. It will contain information on investments, projects, development initiatives, maps, statistics, and a resource mobilization framework.
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The financial support from United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) through the Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development (LECRD) Project and all the organisations and subject matter experts, too many to mention, are highly acknowledged for the successful design, development and implementation of the Climate Change Policy, Planning and Budgeting at National and County Level training program.
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Mbiru, S.S. (2019). Capacity Development to Support Planning and Decision Making for Climate Change Response in Kenya. In: Leal Filho, W., Lackner, B., McGhie, H. (eds) Addressing the Challenges in Communicating Climate Change Across Various Audiences. Climate Change Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98294-6_14
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