CATEGORY: | NGO |
CSA PROJECT 1: | Integrated Management of Natural Resources for resilience building in Arid and Semiarid Lands (IMARA) |
SCALE: | National |
LOCATION: | Laikipia, Isiolo, Samburu and Marsabit |
PERIOD OF THE PROJECT: | 2018-2021 |
GRANT SIZE OF THE PROJECT: | USD 651,944 |
CSA PROJECT 2: | Integrated Climate protection and resource conservation project |
SCALE: | National |
LOCATION: | Homabay and Migori |
PERIOD OF THE PROJECT: | 2014-2021 |
GRANT SIZE OF THE PROJECT: | USD674,208 |
CSA PROJECT 3: | Dry lands Development Program |
SCALE: | National |
LOCATION: (COUNTY): | Makueni, Kitui and Machakos |
PERIOD OF THE PROJECT: | 2014-2019 |
GRANT SIZE OF THE PROJECT: | USD 13751440 $6,875,720 and ($5177500D GIS and 1,698,220) |
WORLD VISION

Summary of Actions
World Vision Kenya promotes location specific climate change adaptation, mitigation and resilience building initiatives through project based approaches that focus on education and awareness creation, technology transfer and advocacy of CSA practices across selected counties of Kenya. The organization prioritizes activities that: enhance community resilience building against environmental threats such as climate change; promote dryland development through adoption of CSA technologies and practices;
promotes integrated natural resources management practices for resilience building in arid and semi-arid lands; enhance integrated climate protection and resource conservation for sustainable development.
The main activites implemented by World vision aim at increasing resilience among dryland communities of Kenya. The Kenyan drylands are the most vunerable to climate change owing tot he biophysical and social-cultural factors. The frequency and severity of climate extreme events such as drought, periodic floods, heat stress have been on the rise with negative impacts on agriculture, food security and general livelihood strategies among ASAL communities of Kenya. Empowering households to adopt climate smart tecgniques to improve farming methods helps to boost their resilience and improve livelihoods.
Context
The inherent fragility of Kenyas drylands makes these agroecosystems highly vunerable to the adverse effects of climate change owing to the already stressed biophysical and social-cultural environments. The increasing frequency and severity of extreme climate events such as drought, periodic floods, and heat waves have negatively impacted on agriculture productivity, food security and livelihoods of ASALs
communities of Kenya. Empowering ASALs households to adopt trannsformative climate smart agrotechnologies and practices would help sustain productivity besides boosting resilience of their farming
systems and sustain livelihoods.
Objective
Project 1: IMARA project: The overall objective of this project is to Increase the resilience of marginalized households to climate change related shocks through improved natural resources management and diversification of livelihoods.
Project 2: Dry lands Development Program : The long term objective of this project is to enhance food security and economic development of rural populations in dryland areas through improved climate smart water management technologies and practices.
Project 3: Integrated Climate protection and resource conservation project The main objective of this project is to strengthen the adaptive capacity of communities in responding to the adverse effects of climate change on agriculture and food systems through integrated climate and natural resources management approaches.
Key Interventions
PROJECT 1 : IMARA | ||
FARM LEVEL | TARGET (NO OF FARMERS) | INDICATORS MONITORED |
Soil and water conservation practices |
10,200 | No. of smallholder farm households practicing at least one form of soil and water conservation practices (e.g. soil fertility improvement, terracing, erosion control, etc.) No. of farms practicing conservation agriculture |
Agroforestry practices | 10,200 | No. of farms practicing conservation agricultur No of households practicing agroforestry/farm forestry |
Inclusion of youth and women in climate smart agriculture practices |
over 3000 youths and women |
Number of youth engaged in CSA initiatives Number of women practicing CSA No. of CSA technologies and practices adopted by farmers |
BEYOND FARM LEVEL | TARGET BENEFICIARIES | INDICATORS MONITORED |
Policy formulation | Farmers, agricultural Extension officers, Natural Resources Conservationists, County governments Ministry of Environment |
-No. of meetings held with farmers, county governments officers, agricultural extension officers, climate services providers, and other stakeholders No. of policy briefs developed and shared |
Capacity building in integrated natural resources management |
Farmers, agricultural extension officers, County government Ministry of environment staff, climate services providers |
No. of training workshops conducted Capacity building evaluation report No. of climate smart environmental conservation practices integrated in the county integrated development plans. |
Research | Farmers, Ministry of Environment staff, County government planners, agricultural extension staff |
No of field surveys conducted No of focus group discussions held No of results sharing conferences No of scientific publications No. of policy briefs validated and published |
PROJECT 2: INTEGRATED CLIMATE PROTECTION AND NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION PROJECT | ||
FARM LEVEL | TARGET (NO OF FARMERS) | INDICATORS MONITORED |
Index based livestock insurance |
Over 20,000 households |
Number of households enrolled in IBLI programs Number of households holding IBLI policy and benefitted from payouts Number of livestock (TLUs) by type insured |
Soil and water management |
10,200 | No. of small holder farm households practicing at least one form of soil and water conservation (e.g soil fertility improvement, erosion control) |
Agroforestry | 10,200 | No of households practicing agroforestry/farm forestry Acreage of farms under agroforestry/farm forestry practices |
PROJECT 3: DRYLAND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM | ||
FARM LEVEL | TARGET NO | INDICATORS MONITORED |
Rain water harvesting |
Households in 22 counties |
No of households practicing/adopting on-farm rain water harvesting technologies (e.g. farm ponds, zai pits etc) |
Integrated water and soil management techniques |
Households | No. of small holder farm households practicing at least one form of soil and water conservation (e.g soil fertility improvement, erosion control |
Participation In Key Climate & Agriculture Networks
World Vision is a member of several networks including: the Non-state actors fronted CSA Alliance; the Ending Drought Emergencies (EDE) framework Task Team on pillar four; the National WFD planning committee; the National Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration network; the Kenya Agri-Nutrition Framework; and the Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Multistakeholder Platform (MSP) among others.
Involvement in CSA
Relevance of CSA MSP to Work
- Policy formulation and advocacy
- Knowledge dissemination
- Technology Transfer
- Capacity building initiatives
- Networking
- Learning and exchange
- Influence on policy environment
- Reporting and showcasing
- Information on CSA Technologies and practices
Recommendation On Ways To Support MSP
- CSA knowledge dissemination
- Technology transfer on climate smart agriculture practices
- Capacity building of CSA actors
- Mobilizing actors and facilitation of dialogue on CSA actions
- Research
- Resource mobilization
Lessons Learned/ Challenges In The CSA Project Implementation
Continuous capacity building and technology transfer in support of farming households is required inorder to bring CSA adoption to scale. Coordination among stakeholders will go along way to leverage onresources, multiply impact and avoid duplication of resources in implementing CSA initiatives. There isneed to climate proof all agricultural projects against climatic shocks and stresses in order to avoid losing gains so far made.
Relevant Links & References
https://www.wvi.org/kenya
Organisation Information and Contact Address Incase of Follow Up
Name: Jedida Mwendwa
Email address: Jedida_mwendwa@wvi.org
Organisational Physical address: Karen Road, off Ngong Road
Organisational Website: https://www.wvi.org/kenya