FP255

Transforming Livelihoods through Climate Resilient, Low Carbon, Sustainable Agricultural Value Chains in the Lake Region Economic Bloc, Kenya

Transforming Livelihoods through Climate Resilient, Low Carbon, Sustainable Agricultural Value Chains in the Lake Region Economic Bloc, Kenya

  • Status Under implementation
  • Date approved 20 Feb 2025 at B.41
  • Est. completion 20 Feb 2031
  • ESS Category Category B

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.

Total project value

0.0

Tonnes of emissions avoided

0.0

Beneficiaries

0.0

Direct
572,000
Indirect
2,098,140
Theme

Cross-cutting

Result areas

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

One region

  • Africa

One country

One priority group

  • African States
USD 0.0
  • Financing
    • Private sector
    • Public sector
  • Size
    • Micro
    • Small
    • Medium
    • Large
GCF29.2mGrantCo-Financing14.0mGrantCo-Financing5.8mGrant..GCF financing 58.4%Co-financing 41.6%

GCF financing13% disbursed

InstrumentAmount
GrantUSD 29,215,309
Total GCF Financing
USD 29,215,309

Co-financing

Co-financerInstrumentAmount
Co-FinancingGrantUSD 14,000,000
Co-FinancingGrantUSD 5,791,019
Co-FinancingGrantUSD 985,910
Total Co-Financing
USD 20,776,929

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Entity

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Ms. Elizabeth A. Bechdol
Primary

Deputy Director-General
Phone +39 06 57051800
DDG-Bechdol@fao.org
Ms. Maria Helena Semedo
Secondary

Deputy Director-General
More contacts

National Designated Authority

Kenya
The National Treasury
Dr Chris Kiptoo Primary
Principal Secretary
Treasury Building 12th Floor, Harambee Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya
Phone +254 20 224 0051
pstnt@treasury.go.ke
Mr. Malik Aman Secondary
Programme Manager, National Coordination (FLLoCA)
Phone +254 720 771774
malikaman@me.com
Mr. Peter Odhengo Secondary
Senior Policy Advisor, Climate Finance
Phone +254 722 984 992
odhengo@gmail.com
Mr. Hillary Korir Secondary
Senior Economist
Phone +254 722 644736
hillary.korir@treasury.go.ke

News + Stories

Accelerating climate action to communities: seven new projects set for implementation

17 Mar 2025 / Seven new project agreements were signed during the Green Climate Fund’s 41st Board meeting (B.41), which took place on 17-20 February 2025. At the Fund’s first Board meeting of the year, the Board approved USD 686.8 million (USD 1.5 billion with co-financing) in GCF investment for 11 new projects in 42 countries. This brings the GCF portfolio to 297 projects in 133 countries, with a total GCF funding amount of USD 16.6 billion and USD 62.7 billion with co-financing.