Resilience Through Inclusion: How Maasai Women Are Restoring Kenya's Amboseli Landscape
Through a new GEF funded project, Maasai women are taking on the role of environmental steward to restore degraded land.
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Monitoring
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Developing country that is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Kenya's NDC builds on the participatory multi-stakeholder and cross-sectoral consultative processes during the development of the National Climate Change Response Strategy and the National Climate Change Action Plan at national and country levels.
Mitigation and adaptation actions shall be reviewed every five years. Adaptation actions are further amplified in the National Adaptation Plan.
Under "Planning Process" it states that: In addressing climate change issues, public entities are required to undertake public awareness and consultations, and ensure gender mainstreaming, in line with the Constitution and Climate Change Bill (2
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Adaptation
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English
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No
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Implementation
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Mitigation
Adaptation
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Yes
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Developing country in East Africa extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change
The process for updating of Kenya’s NDC was led by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, with coordination carried out by the Climate Change Directorate. It entailed a "detailed and robust assessment of mitigation and adaptation measures, a
Kenya’s National Climate Change Action Plans (NCCAPs) will be used to implement the priority mitigation and adaptation actions identified in the updated NDC.
In setting out its contributions, Kenya remains cognizant of how gender affects vulnerabilities and contributions to climate change. Given this, Kenya "commits to implement its mitigation and adaptation priorities in a gender-responsive manner."
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