Bungoma County climate change director Jane Mukonambi says the County allocated Ksh 80 million towards climate change actions that will help to streamline climate change matters.
Mukonambi further noted that Bungoma is partnering with cbm global disability inclusion and the Kenya Red Cross society in implementing a three years project that seeks to fight climate change and support persons living with disability, to have them get involved in the process.
She disclosed that the County has also received funding from the German government and the World Bank to help fight climate change.
“The German government gave Bungoma Khs 112 million while the World Bank disbursed Ksh 208 million towards fighting climate change in the community .” she said.
To ensure that the community understands about climate change issues, the director asserted that they have trained community champions in all the 45 wards of Bungoma County who have taken the initiative of sensitization on climate change.
“In our capacity building sessions we make sure that there is inclusivity, make sure that persons living with disability are represented, youths, the civil society organizations and the elderly are included,” she said.
Mukonambi mentioned upgrading of boreholes, water catchment as some of the climate change actions that they will delve in during the exercise.
She added that they are also doing mulching, fruit tree farming, solarization of boreholes and drip irrigation.
Wilson Owino, the Kenya Red Cross society representative in his address, echoed the director’s sentiments saying that currently cbm global is running a project dubbed promoting inclusive climate change resilience in Bungoma.
Additionally, Owino pointed out that through the three years project they have been able to support activities and reach over 80,000 residents.
He added that the project includes health and sanitation department of rehabilitative services where 290 people with disabilities have undergone screening for different diseases and 236 have so far benefited from services.
Owino states that through the project a number of climate change champions have been trained who are now castigating information in the communities.
