Community based action plans

Relevant stakeholders are engaged to identify challenges within their respective communities and solutions that are ecosystem friendly but contribute to the enhancement of local livelihoods. This process follows a prior participatory community-wide assessment and validation of results from the assessment or survey process. The assessment identifies livelihood and climatic trends and impacts on various sectors. Following this, a stakeholder meeting is initiated through which potential adaptation and sustainable livelihood stategies are proposed and adopted against each challenge and included in the overal community-based adaptation plan. A community-based action plan matrix is then generated through the stakeholder participatory process that includes the following sections: livelihood and adaptation options, duration of implementation, actors, required resources, key expected results and estimated amount to implement each adopted strategy or action.

  • Availability of adequate data or information collected through a participatory process using participatory instruments involving various stakeholders.
  • Participatory involvement of both local and County-level stakeholders

 

  • Adequate involvement of stakeholders including community members can help collect data on baseline information.
  • Community involvement from the beginning contributes to them accepting management planning results and their positive contribution towards implementation.
  • Sharing the community based plan with local stakeholders and community members contribute to their ownership of the local-elevl generated action plans.