The National Treasury has disbursed Sh12.68 billion to 45 counties for the Financing Locally Led Climate Action (FLLOCA) Programme.
Head of Climate Finance and Green Economy Unit at the National Treasury, Peter Odhengo revealed this during the ongoing climate change talks in Azerbaijan.
“1,178 projects are running at different levels in all wards today. And as we are talking here, people are working on the ground,” Odhengo said.
Odhengo said there are several ongoing projects in 1,418 wards.
The Treasury official was speaking in a session; ‘Climate adaptation and displacement response: innovative gender-responsive financing and operational models for locally-led actions in fragile and conflict affected settings.’
Other panelists in the session included SIF Head of Mission for Kenya and Somalia Gorkhmaz Huseynov, Executive Director Africa Centre for Sustainable and Inclusive Development Salome Owuonda, Senior Climate Change Strategy Officer, Mercy Corps Dr Anyse Pereira and Agusto, and Company Regional Director Ikechukwu Iheagwam.
The FLLOCA program seeks 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.
This is in a way that promotes collaborative partnerships between communities, and national and county governments.
