Program Framework

The FLLoCA Program is implemented as a hybrid Program for Results (PforR)/Investment Project Financing (IPF). The PforR instrument:

• Leverages improvements in County Governments’ spending on climate resilience,
• Strengthens the institutional capacity of the government’s program, and
• Establishes a results-based mechanism for crowding in climate financing at the county level.

The National-Level IPF Component

The IPF component is financing national-level activities which enable locally-led climate finance in support of the G-FLLoCA components 1, 2, 3 and 6, as well as project management costs. Activities will be grouped into:

Sub-component IPF-1: Capacity and Coordination Support

This sub-component is financing operational and technical capacity building of relevant national entities, namely the TNT&P, CCD, Ministry of Devolution and ASAL (MoDA), Climate Finance and Green Economy Unit, NEMA, Directorate of Occupational Safety and Health Services (DOSHS), CoG, NDMA, Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD), Ministry of Water and Sanitation, and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). Capacity-building activities are aiming to improve entities’ ability to support counties in developing and operationalizing their climate change-related policies and regulations while establishing clear coordination mechanisms between the entities. The sub-component is financing the hiring of consultants who are providing training on subjects relevant to the entities’ role in fostering climate resilience in counties, in accordance with the capacity needs assessments’ areas of priority, and is also addressing entities’ operational weaknesses to ensure they are effectively and efficiently supporting the counties. Additionally, the sub-component is financing the necessary capacities, equipment, and software of the Maarifa Center and the KCCKP, enabling them to serve as state-of-the-art national centers that are documenting and sharing experiences, innovations, and solutions for counties’ climate resilience and acting as a one-stop repository of national and county climate change information.

Sub-component IPF-2: Social Risk Management Support

This sub-component will assist the MLSP to institutionalize social risk management (SRM) at the national and county levels and to help counties to pilot the screening of climate actions for social impacts. At the national level, the sub-component will finance costs related to the creation of a national multi-stakeholder committee on SRM to ensure broad institutional support to the process, and the establishment of a unit under the MLSP’s State Department for Social Protection to conduct SRM of development projects and government programs. At the county level, the sub-component will finance technical assistance, equipment, and software to all 47 counties to institutionalize, operationalize, and pilot the application of SRM principles in climate actions in the CGs. The support builds upon county safeguards management capacities established under the Kenya Devolution Support Program (KDSP) and the Kenya Urban Support Program (KUSP).

Sub-component IPF-3: Program Management and M&E Support

This sub-component is financing the incremental operating costs of the PIU and the hiring of technical and operational specialists who are managing, monitoring, and evaluating the Program. PIU members are receiving training to ensure their ability to support the Program and adhere to World Bank guidelines and procedures concerning the IPF Component. Workshops and meetings between stakeholders are also being supported, along with the establishment of a Program Resource Center at the PIU and in four decentralized locations. Finally, the sub-component is financing the operating costs of the Program Steering Committee, CF-TAC, and National Climate Change Council.

The PforR Component

The PforR component supports all three Action Pillars of the FLLoCA Program. It finances results in two result areas across all the 47 counties.

Locally-led climate resilience action

Low-emission climate resilience actions will be financed through a conditional County Climate Resilience Investment (CCRI) Grant following a facilitated participatory process. The process will begin with participatory climate risk assessments of counties that identify, estimate, map, and rate climate change risks and other hazards. Based on the assessments and communities’ own knowledge and risk management strategies, communities will prioritize local climate actions with facilitation and technical support of CCU and CG sectoral departments. The prioritized actions, which are likely to fall within the agriculture, environment, and water sectors, will be endorsed and budgeted by the WCCPC and approved by the County Assembly.