Busia County Committed To Addressing Climate Change
Climate change is one of the most pressing and urgent issues today.
To address this, the National Government through the funding from World Bank has initiated a pilot program dubbed Financing Locally-Led Climate Change Action (FLLoCA) to support counties in combating the effects of climate change.
With this, the administration of Dr. Paul Otuoma remains committed and dedicated to seeing to it that the county benefits from this and other programs that drive holistic action to address climate change.
This program will see Busia County benefit from the Climate Resilience Investment Grant to boost sustainable climate actions across the county.
The program is underway and the team is currently working on the Participatory Climate Risk Assessment (PCRA) and County Climate Change Action Plan reports, from the ward-level investment projects highlighted from the community participation held in all the 35 wards across the County.
The PCRA report will inform the County Climate Change Action Plan (CCCAP) which will ensure that local communities’ resilience is strengthened to the impact of climate change.
The CCCAP will inform the National Climate Change Action Plan aimed at building structures and systems that are sustainable as far as climate change is concerned.
The community participatory exercise was conducted by the Department of Water, Environment, Irrigation, Natural Resources and Climate Change, where climate change related risks and hazards were identified and proposed investments towards mitigation and adaptation specific to each ward.
This will ensure that solutions to climate change are inclusive and grounded in local realities.
Among the proposed investment areas cutting across majority of the wards include establishment of tree nurseries and afforestation, water pipeline extensions, soil conservation, sollarization of health facilities, installation of lightning arrestors’ alternative sources of livelihood such as apiculture and aquaculture.
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