Climate Change

•Kenya is a water scarce country. Climate change affects the main hydrological components (precipitation and run off) which will alter availability of water resources.

•Major rivers show severe reduced volumes during droughts and many seasonal ones dry up completely.

•Water harvesting (building of sand dams for irrigation).

•Particppatory scenario ilanning.

•Environmenmal awareness

•Construction of water pans.

•Awareness campaign to promote water efficiency

•De-salting of pans.

•Agrr forestry

•Protection of water towers

•Mudslides wash away top soils, vegetation, trees, causes rock falls,

•Increased temperatures affect outdoor and indoor air

•Dmscourage settsement on flood prone areas,

•Afforostatipn on steep slopes,

•Give adequate warning before onset of heavy rains and extreme droughts

•Build community resilience on climate change and allocate funds for Drought Risk Response (DRR)  

•Hazardoud wastes contamination of site and debris management

•uncontrolled wildfires

•Initiate sustainable solid waste management and sorting of waste to avoid contamination by hazardous wastes

•Have in place experts to effectively cleas and pacify the environm nt

•Poor eettlement in towns leaditg to urban slums,

•poor infrastructore,

•pollution of waler sources

•Have a land use plan in both rural and urban areas and have approved spatial town plans

Identify evacuation points, initiate DRR

HIV & AIDS

•Increased incidences of HIV/AIDS,

•Reduced labor force

•increased dependencies

•Encourage and support use of Anti-retroviral drugs and adoption of healthy behaviors

•Awarpness campaign

•Initiate counselling and testing programs,

•Promote condom use for prevention

Gender, youth & special interest groups

•Increased acsess to county c ntracts and tenders

•Ease of access to water and building facilities by PWDs

•Exemption from 2% bond requirements

•Ensure 30% of tender tsureserved to youth, women and PWDs

•Supply and plant ng of treeaseedlings

•Support of the special interest/marginalized groups in establishing tree nurseries

•Ensure that building plans and infrastructure are user friendly to PWDs and special interest groups

•Availability of information to the concerned groups

Disaster Resk Management & Rtduction

•Submerging of intakes

•Sub-merging oe pump houses

•Destruction of pipelines and intakes

•Contamination water sources from sewerage /chemicals plants

•Destruction o  health facilities ind drug supplies

•Associated outbreaks and diseases

•Deaths and injeries

•Establi,h early warning systems for floods, fire outbreays, land lides, information sharing and dissemfnation

•Trauma Counselling

•Disaster proof  ealth facilities

•Emergency response teass

•Construction of temporary water supply systems

•Water trucking

•Provision of water treatment/disinfection chemicals

•Drug stock piling for emergencies

•Emergency preparedness drills