Transforming Livelihoods through Climate Resilient, Low Carbon, Sustainable Agricultural Value Chains in the Lake Region Economic Bloc, Kenya
Kenya is highly vulnerable to climate change and increased climate variability, primarily due to agriculture's central role in the economy. The Lake Victoria Region, comprising 14 counties and collectively known as the Lake Region Economic Bloc (LREB), is a key agricultural hub. The region is experiencing rising temperatures, more frequent and severe droughts, and increased annual rainfall, leading to flooding and runoff.
Local adaptive capacity remains moderately low, as most smallholder farmers operate on marginal land with scarce resources and lack access to risk mitigation measures. Low agricultural productivity exerts pressure on land and natural resources, prompting cropland expansion and ecosystem degradation, leading to increased emissions from deforestation.
This project aims to promote climate-resilient, low-carbon, environmentally sustainable, and financially viable agricultural value chains by expediting the transfer of technology, knowledge, assets, and services. It emphasises empowering agri-food cooperatives as pivotal agents of rural transformation. Project activities will focus on enabling local government support for adaptation and mitigation, investing in community-led, sustainable agricultural landscape management and restoration, increasing smallholder farmers' resilience, and improving their market access.
The project builds on outcomes from a previous initiative funded by the GCF Readiness Programme that strengthened adaptation planning capacities.
Project timeline
Pipeline
28 Mar 2022 • 1061 days
Legal opinion on AE's Internal Approval
28 Mar 2022
Concept note received
26 Jul 2023
Funding proposal received
27 Jan 2025
Cleared by iTAP
20 Feb 2025
Approved
20 Feb 2025 • 39 days so far
Approved by GCF Board
20 Feb 2025
FAA effective
20 Feb 2025
FAA executed
26 Feb 2025
Under implementation
To be completed
20 Feb 2031
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Financing
- Private sector
- Public sector
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Size
- Micro
- Small
- Medium
- Large
GCF financing13% disbursed
Instrument | Amount |
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Grant | USD 29,215,309 |
Total GCF Financing |
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USD 29,215,309 |
Co-financing
Co-financer | Instrument | Amount |
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Co-Financing | Grant | USD 14,000,000 |
Co-Financing | Grant | USD 5,791,019 |
Co-Financing | Grant | USD 985,910 |
Total Co-Financing |
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USD 20,776,929 |
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Entity

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Deputy Director-General
More contacts
National Designated Authority
The National Treasury
Principal Secretary
Treasury Building 12th Floor, Harambee Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya
Programme Manager, National Coordination (FLLoCA)
Senior Policy Advisor, Climate Finance
Documents
Title | Type | Date |
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Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP255: Transforming Livelihoods through Climate Resilient, Low Carbon, Sustainable Agricultural Value Chains in the Lake Region Economic Bloc, Kenya | Environmental and Social Safeguards report | 15 Jan 2025 |
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