GERMAN DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION -GESELLSCHAFT FUER INTERNATIONALE ZUSAMMENARBEIT (GIZ)

CATEGORY: Development actor
CSA PROJECT: Improving food security in Western
Kenya
SCALE: National
LOCATION: Bungoma, Kakamega, Siaya
PERIOD OF THE PROJECT: 2007-2019
GRANT SIZE OF THE PROJECT: N/A

Summary of Actions

The organization focuses on activities and methods that: strengthen resilience building interventions to drought impacts; improve agriculture and food security; enhance access to markets; creates employment; delivers sustainable economic development; and promotes vocational training of farmers.

Context

The farming fraternity in Western Kenya predominantly comprises vulnerable smallholder farmers to the adverse impacts of climate change due to the burgeoning urban and rural human population in an environment of scarcity of land and water, and their accelerated degradation. This presents major challenges to sustainable agricultural production and food security. Being a devolved function, success in the agriculture sector plans and development will require cooperation between the authorities at the national and county levels in the areas of agricultural extension and capacity building in order to deliver on the desired increase in economic growth and food security.

Objective

The project overall goal is to promote sustainable agriculture initiatives that contribute to food security, economic growth and resilience building in smallholder agriculture in Western Kenya under climate change.

Key Interventions

FARM LEVEL TARGET (NO OF FARMERS) INDICATORS MONITORED
Agricultural extension services Farmers, extension staff, agro-input supply chain, traders, agro-processors
  • No. of new technologies and practices
    implemented
  • No. of policy documents published

Participation In Key Climate & Agriculture Networks

GIZ is a member of the Irrigation Acceleration Platform

Involvement in CSA

Relevance of CSA MSP to Work

  • Knowledge dissemination
  • Technology transfer
  • Coordination and networking
  • Communication
  • Financing of climate smart agriculture
    interventions
  • Networking
  • Learning and knowledge exchange
  • Influencing of policy environment

Recommendation On Ways To Support MSP

  • Developing specific climate smart agriculture policies, legislations, strategies, and plans
  • Dissemination of climate smart agriculture knowledge, technologies and practices
  • Involvement in developing capacities of key actors and stakeholders involved in climate smart agriculture project implementation
  • Monitoring, evaluation and audit of climate smart agriculture interventions to enhance efficiency of implementation and accountability

RELEVANT LINKS & REFERENCES

https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/24913.html

ORGANISATION INFORMATION AND CONTACT ADRESS INCASE OF FOLLOW UP

Name: Jeffrey Ngari
Email address: jeffrey.ngari@giz.de
Organisational Website: https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/24913.html