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.