. INTRODUCTION: Lamu County Lamu County consists of two Sub- - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE COUNTIES

.

Presented by:- Mohamed Baishe Director- Environment & Natural Resources Lamu County Date: 23rd January, 2020.

INTRODUCTION: Lamu County

• Lamu County

consists of two Sub- Counties/ Constituencies: – Lamu East – Lamu West

• There are 10

electoral wards

COUNTY OVERNMENT OF LAMU KEY DEPARTMENTS

v Public Service Management & Adinistration v Health, Sanitation, & Environment v Livestock, Fisheries and Co-

• peratives

v Education, Youth, Sports and Culture v Lands, Physical Planning, Infrastructures and Energy v Agriculture, Water and Irrigation. v Finance, Strategy and Economic Planning v Tourism, Trade and Investment.

CLIMATE CHANGES IMPACTS

• 1. FOOD SECURITY:-
• Low production & productivity- crops

&livestock products due to prolong drought and floods

• Land degradation caused by soil erosion
• Soil fertility reduce due to washing away of

soil nutrients.

• Low accessibility and affordability of food-

low yield

CLIMATE CHANGES IMPACTS

• 2. HEALTH
• Food shortage results in poor dietary and

malnutrition among children

• Increase in waterborne diseases – malaria,

cholera, etc

• High temperatures causes heat strokes,

dehydration and other related diseases.

• Affects other sectors due to shortage of

healthy workers

• High costs of treatments e.g, drugs,

equipments

CONTINUE

3)INFRASTRUCTURES-

• Roads damaged during floods and dusty during

drought

• Movement of people & goods becomes difficult

thus affects business & economy

• Bridges washed -loss of lives & properties
• Destruction of facilities like powerlines,schools,
• Increased accidents& damage to vehicles

• 4. ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION

1) Drought

• Land- becomes degraded, reduce fertility and tree
• cover. Low crops yield
• Reduce pastures for livestock and wildlife
• Water scarcity
• People engaged in other illegal livelihood

activities eg. Poaching, charcoal making, illicit brewing

CONTINUE

2)Floods

• soil erosion, uprooting of tree, destruction of

crops, livestock, properties and loss of human lives

• Contaminates water structures eg. Wells,
• Water logging in farms – destroys crops
• Destruction of irrigation structures
• Loss of aesthetic value of the environment
• Can lead to loss of Biodiversity

5) Social Impacts:-

• Displacement of people from their homes- loss
• f employment,
• Disruption of learning in schools destroyed by

floods

• 6. Conflicts- between scarce resources users
• Land, water and pastures:-
• farmers & pastoralists
• Wildlife & livestock
• Among pastoralists from other counties
• This has resulted in destruction of properties,

injury and loss of life & land degradation.

• Impacts from Ocean:
• Strong winds
• High and turbulence waves
• Results in –capsizing and destruction of sea

vessels, loss of properties & lives

• Reduce fish harvests
• Sea transport risky
• Destruction of sea walls, jetties
• Deposition of solid wastes to the beaches- reducing

aesthetic value of place

Cont..

• Water sources
• Drying up of water sources- sand dunes, lakes,
• Salinization due to ocean water intrusion
• Water contamination during erosion, high sea

tides

• Shortage of clean water for domestic uses-

poor sanitation, outbreaks of diseases

PRIORITIES

• IMPROVE FOOD SECURITY-
• Training farmers on agronomic better practices
• Planting of drought resistance & early maturing

crops

• Establish irrigation systems
• Pre&post harvest management
• Fodder conservation-
• Excavation of water pans- crops, livestock,

wildlife

• Value addition crops and livestock products

LAND USE PLAN

• County Spatial Plan (CSP)- Lamu is the first

county to develop CSP

• It identify best and potential land uses for

productive and sustainable – agriculture, forest, livestock, wildlife, industries, housing,

• conservation. etc
• CSP – policies, regulations, environment &

social safeguards.

WATER AVAILABILTY AND ACCESSIBILITY

§ Protect water sources-

• Gazettement of water catchment areas.
• Put up water harvesting structures- water pans,

storage tanks( elevated& Underground)

• Installation of more desalination plants
• Increase forest cover- Afforestation prgm, uses

alternative energy sources- solar, cooking gas, wind energy and biogas

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

§ To designate dumping sites in major trading centers § To provide more facilities for the collection and transportation of solid waste to dumping sites § To involve and empower local community in the SWM § To have policies and regulations on SWM

GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES

• Inadequate personnel in the department to handle many

issues of climate change

• Lack of technical skills and capacity
• Low budgetary allocation from the National

Government to Lamu County(least)

• Lack of political will to allocated more funds to

environmental issues-

• More funds is allocated to tangible projects as opposed

to intangible CC issues

• Lack of information and relevant data on the effects and

impacts of CC

CONTINUE

• Lack of coordination and collaboration among

key sectors involved in CC issues –NEMA,KFS, KWS, KERRA, KENHA, Public Health, Dept Water, etc.

• Lack of policies, regulations and plans to address

issues related to climate change effects- funding, reporting, committees,

• Absence of NGOs operating in the county dealing

with environmental issues to provide support

THANK YOU