County Government of Laikipia

This week, just as the UN climate negotiations took place in Glasgow, the County Government of Laikipia with the support from Frontier Counties Development Council convened a policy dialogue forum.

The aim was to foster exchanges among stakeholders(policymakers, the private sector, and youth and women engaged in climate justice) on knowledge and best practices, leading to prioritized interventions going forward by developing rules and regulations to operationalize the Laikipia County Climate Change act.

The discussions also looked into having ways to enable proper utilization and management of rangelands through policy, noting that rangelands play a unique role in impacting the livelihoods of pastoralists communities.

Most stakeholders highlighted a lack of access to the recently assented Laikipia Climate Change Act now awaiting publication.

To ensure a clear understanding of the policy, it was decided that arrangements be made to have a dissemination forum and to develop a popular version of the climate change act for the purpose of enlightening the masses once the act has been published.

As an urgent measure to streamline climate change mitigation in all related sectors, with limited sources of funding, a technical working group was drawn from the relevant stakeholders will be formed to develop climate change finance rules and regulations to enable community inspired action to take place,