County Government Of Turkana Sub-County Climate Change Adaptation Action Plan (CCAAP)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
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Abstract: Climate change is imposing an increasing burden on the national and county governments in their efforts to protect vulnerable populations and realize human rights. Extreme drought events can have negative direct and indirect impacts on health and contribute to desertification,food insecurity,migration,and increased conflict. Indigenous populations,poor and socially marginalized individuals,women,and people with disabilities are often most affected. Turkana North and Kibish Sub-County is one of the sub-counties worst affected by climate change in Turkana County. It is evident that droughts have become more frequent,with devastating implications on social,economic,and livelihood systems. Due to extreme climate change events,the sub-county experiences conflicts over access and utilization of increasingly degraded resources,rising malnutrition,high morbidity,increased vulnerability,and loss of biodiversity.Turkana North experiences human mobility shaped by climate change-related disasters and environmental degradation. This situation calls for the need to develop comprehensive Ward Climate Change Action Plans to improve the communitiesâ?? adaptive capacity to climate change and environmental degradation. The process of developing this climate change action plan was participatory in nature and involved stakeholders from national and county government,International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs),Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs),Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs),Civil Society Organizations (CSOs),state agencies,and community representatives. Key stakeholders engaged at the community level included area chiefs,members of the ward planning committees,community elders,women leaders,youth leaders,herders,religious leaders,and people living with disabilities,among others.