Participatory Climate Risk Assessment (PCRA)

Climate change is increasingly posing a threat to socio-economic development and environmental sustainability both at the national and county level. It is negatively impacting the lives of Elgeyo Marakwet people and the environment at an increasing rate. It has led to more frequent extreme weather events like droughts, floods, irregular and unpredictable rainfall and increasing temperatures. The effects of these climate changes have resulted in many challenges affecting agriculture and livestock, environment, commerce, and health.

In order to mitigate these adverse effects and/or impacts of climate change, the national government with the support of the World Bank launched the Financing Locally-Led Climate Action (FLLoCA) Program looking at both enabling environmental activities and an innovative decentralized approach for tackling climate change impacts. The objective is to strengthen local resilience to the impact of climate change, natural hazards, and other shocks/stressors by building the country’s capacity to plan, implement, and monitor resilient investments in partnership with county governments and communities.

The program, as part of design, was supported by the World Bank to conduct Participatory Climate Risk Assessment (PCRA) at the community/ward levels that would underpin monitoring and evaluation aspects as well as county climate resilience measurement. The PCRA process consisted of three main steps; (a) Conducting of community/ward-level sensitization and participatory climate risk assessments informed by climate scenarios at the ward level; (b) Development of prioritized ward-level climate action plans; and (c) Proposition of County Climate Resilience Investment (CCRI) plans.

Elgeyo Marakwet County has adopted the FLLoCA program and embraced its bottom-up approach where the community (Ward-Level) identify hazards, propose mitigation measures and prioritize them and link with organization and/or institutions for urgent interventions and financing. Elgeyo Marakwet invites partnerships to form a formidable front to address climate change challenges/effects affecting the County and provide a lasting solution.