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  1. Library Resource
    climate diplomacy
    Training Resources & Tools
    May, 2015
    Ethiopia, Kenya

    The Omo-Turkana basin stretches from southern Ethiopia into Kenya. Temperatures in the region are rising and droughts occur with higher frequency and intensity. As Ethiopian pastoralists venture further south in search of water and grazing land, conflicts with Kenyan pastoralists and fishermen are intensifying. Given their trans-boundary and protracted nature, these conflicts pose a particular challenge to local peace building and disarmament efforts.

  2. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    January, 2018
    Kenya

    - Introduction

    - Country Profile

    - Historical Perspective to Planning in Kenya

    - Land Use Planning Framework in Kenya

    - Constitutional context

    - Policy and Legal Agenda

    - Oversight and monitoring function of the National Land Commission

    - Interpretation

    - Activities

    - Challenges and opportunities

  3. Library Resource

    Fostering Social Accountability in Public Finance under Devolved Governance

    Training Resources & Tools
    January, 2014
    Africa, Kenya

    The constitution of Kenya 2010 established a devolved system of governance with 47 County governments. The constitution in schedule four also transfers service delivery in health, water and agriculture sector among other functions to county governments.

  4. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    January, 2014
    Africa, Kenya

    Public participation is an action or a series of actions a person takes to involve themselves in affairs of government or community. These activities include voting, attending meetings, participating in public or private political discussion or debate on issues, signing a petition on a desired government action or policy, volunteering in community activities and contributing money to a political party or candidate of one’s choice among other similar activities.

  5. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    January, 2014
    Africa, Kenya

    Devolution is one form of decentralization. Decentralization is defined as the process of dispersing power from the centre to lower levels of government. The other forms of decentralization include de-concentration, delegation and privatization. De-concentration transfers implementation powers to lower regions or sub- national units that implement decisions made at the centre. The responsibility for service delivery and decision making under delegation is passed to semiindependent territorial or sub-national units.

  6. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    January, 2015
    Africa, Kenya

    This handbook provides reference material for stakeholders in devolved governance, including policy makers at the county level and citizens, on social accountability and its relevance in devolved governance and the attainment of the objects of Kenya’s devolution as highlighted in Article 174 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010.

  7. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2014
    Kenya, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Africa

    The manual was created specifically for use in the Western Kenya Smallholder Agricultural Carbon project, managed by the Swedish NGO Vi Agroforestry, which is the test case for the first Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) methodology for generating carbon credits by building organic matter in agricultural soils. The project aims to provide support to farmers as they implement the sustainable agricultural and management (SALM) practices which generate the carbon credits within the project.

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