With unprecedented adverse effects of climate change, the Danish government has donated a Sh907.9 million grant to boost the efforts of Northern Kenya and coastal region communities in addressing the menace.
The grant will be utilized in a four-year project implemented by the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) in providing nature-based solutions including forest restorations, coastal mangroves and at the same time encourage the use of renewable energy.
The latest grant through the Danish Development Agency (DANIDA) has now seen total allocation to the resilience to climate change project rise to Sh4 billion in the last 13 years.
One of the projects that are being implemented through Nature based solution projects is the restoration of the 22 hectares of Ngare Ndare forest in Meru County with indigenous trees and improvement of the water catchment areas. "We grow both exotic and indigenous seedlings, the latter is for planting in the forest since our forest is natural forest while exotic ones are for planting in farms neighbouring the forest. "We encourage the villages surrounding the forest to own tree planting farms to reduce pressure in the forest on firewood needs," says David Kinyua, Ngare Ndare forest trust chairman.
