In FY 2021 Garissa PREG cluster jointly developed a work plan together with the county government covering identified joint priorities where the activities are jointly funded, implemented, monitored, and evaluated. The main aim of this activity was to provide the opportunity to jointly monitor the activities and document progress and lessons learned from FY 2021 with the aim to enhance integration and coordination of interventions with the goal and expectation of improving household livelihood outcomes and disrupt recurrent humanitarian crisis.
This case explores the CLA approach of the Resilience Learning Activity (RLA), in partnership with local stakeholders, in managing the COVID-19 pandemic and positioning counties in Northern Kenya for better disaster preparedness and management in the future. RLA is a five-year, USAID/Kenya and East Africa- funded Activity led by ACDI/VOCA. To strengthen resilience capacities and evidence-based programming, RLA supports regional, national, and local organizations and institutions in Northern Kenya, Somalia, and the Horn of Africa to build their capacities in analytics, facilitate learning for adaptive management, and improve knowledge management and communications.
One year since the first case of the COVID-19 pandemic was discovered in Kenya, the national and
county governments are still reeling from its effect. Both National and County governments have
been disrupted in terms of objectives, operations, and development progress. The situation is even
worse for frontier counties, which are consistently faced by other shocks, including
floods, locusts, drought, and food insecurity.
The Resilience Learning Activity (RLA) is a five-year USAID/ Kenya and East Africa funded activity. RLA specifically commissioned this survey to identify and document the key experiences of local communities in public communication interventions for resilience building and develop recommendations to improve communication and feedback with communities in Isiolo County and secondly, to develop and propose an implementation framework for a holistic and multi-sectoral approach required to improve community resilience.
In September 2011, at the Nairobi Summit on the Horn of Africa Crisis, African leaders called for a new approach to addressing recurrent crisis in the region. Based on the widespread recognition that current trends and past experience dictated a new approach, the Joint Declaration from this summit called on development partners to “walk” and ”work” with African leaders to support long-term programs and strategies to build resilience.
To maximize the impact of the resiliency radio program, the USAID Kenya/East Africa Resilience Learning Activity (RLA) collaborated with the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA), Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), Kenya Metrological Department (KMD) and county officials in the SEK. The program selected each of these actors based on the community’s trust in their ability to further inform resiliency strategies through effective dissemination of information for effective planning and response through radio programming.
One year since the first case of the COVID-19 pandemic was discovered in Kenya, the national and
county governments are still reeling from its effect. Both National and County governments have
been disrupted in terms of objectives, operations, and development progress. The situation is even
worse for frontier counties, which are consistently faced by other shocks, including
floods, locusts, drought, and food insecurity.
In October 2020, the Resilience Learning Activity (RLA) engaged a Learning and Knowledge Management Specialist to support KIWASH in conceptualizing and developing a Case Study on its work around Strengthening County Governments Accountability, Commitment and Participation in the WASH sector. Upon completion of the Case Study and during the post-case study discussions, it emerged that there was a need to further come up with a tool for engaging policy makers in WASH. RLA working with KIWASH therefore further engaged the consultant to lead the development of a Policy Brief.
In August 2020, the USAID SEK Coordination Mechanism facilitated joint work planning and co-creation processes, as well as cross partner learning as a way of elevating collaboration and reducing duplication among USAID Implementing Partners. To further strengthen the coordination mechanism at the county level, SEK established a county-based coordination structure in each county.
The SEK Targeting and Layering assessment forum was set forth by remarks from Kitui county government, the county intimated on the eagerness to learn on targeting and layering modalities that will be key in enhancing collaboration with USAID Implementing Partners through layering activities.
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