Technical Assistance for Kenya's Climate Loss and Damage Assessment

By comprehensively assessing losses and damages across all sectors, the technical assistance will contribute to achieving national goals and support the government's efforts to address the widespread climate impacts it is facing currently and into the future.

By providing robust data on loss and damage, including possible scenarios, the technical assistance will enable more informed policy decisions, better targeting of resources, and more effective implementation of strategies to mitigate future impacts and address current losses.

The technical assistance will also serve to build and retain capacities in country that will help equip national and sub-national government agencies, as well as community-based actors, with the methodologies and tools to undertake loss and damage assessments, integrate loss and damage into policies and plans, and empower communities to communicate loss and damage impacts as well as identify priority actions, funding needs and intervention strategies.

BACKGROUND: The Santiago Network was established under the Warsaw International Mechanism for loss and damage (WIM) in 2019 as a mechanism to catalyze technical assistance by relevant OBNEs to avert, minimize and address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change at the local, national and regional level.

The technical assistance is for developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. The Santiago Network Secretariat is co-hosted by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). This Santiago Network call for proposals is managed by UNOPS as a co-host of the Santiago Network Secretariat.