The National Treasury will release Kes 7.4 billion to counties as part of the grants towards climate change mitigation program under the Financing Locally-Led Climate Action (FLLoCA) program in the current 23/24 financial year.

The program, which is funded by the national and county governments, the World Bank, and the Governments of Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, will help reverse the negative effects of climate change.

National Treasury and Economic Planning Cabinet Secretary Prof Njuguna Ndung’u says the government, with support from partners, is keen to ensure that climate finance reaches the most vulnerable communities, where the devastating effects are already evident.

Njuguna says the funds will be used to assist counties in developing and implementing tailored climate resilience strategies in response to risks identified by communities in sectors such as agriculture, water, and natural resource management.

“I have seen the program, resources will be provided but remember it is a program for performance, we want results,” he said.

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Environment Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya, who spoke during the event in Kisumu attended by participating counties from the Lake Region Economic Bloc (LREB), says counties must be able to show tangible results to demonstrate their contribution to bettering the country’s ecosystem.

Tuya says the program is unique since it will allow every Kenyan to participate in combating the effects of climate change since it has no boundaries.

“We have agreed that we are going to work closely with the 47 counties to scale up the program,” she said.

The Ministry has implemented the requisite policies, strategies, and plans to unite all efforts in the country towards the common goal of achieving a low-carbon, climate-resilient development pathway.

The FLLoCA program development objective is to strengthen local resilience to the impact of climate change, natural hazards, and other shocks by building local capacity to plan, budget, implement, and monitor resilience investments.