Kenya Country Environmental Analysis
The Kenya Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) presents recent findings and trends on key environmental challenges and opportunities. The CEA identifies a set of recommendations that are necessary to both strengthen the country’s environmental mana...
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okr-10986-339492021-05-25T09:55:52Z Kenya Country Environmental Analysis World Bank ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS NATURAL DISASTER DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY URBANIZATION RENEWABLE NATURAL CAPITAL POLLUTION SOIL EROSION ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION INSTITUTIONS DEFORESTATION WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT WATER QUALITY WATER SCARCITY WASTE MANAGEMENT WILDLIFE PROTECTION ECOTOURISM The Kenya Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) presents recent findings and trends on key environmental challenges and opportunities. The CEA identifies a set of recommendations that are necessary to both strengthen the country’s environmental management capabilities and ensure that environmental issues are adequately incorporated into broader development initiatives and investments. The core of Kenya’s poverty and environmental problems lies at the nexus of population growth, inequality, and high dependence on natural resource–based incomes. A rapidly rising population increases the numbers of people seeking natural resource–based livelihood opportunities placing further pressures on already fragile ecosystems. Climate change is accelerating the impact of existing vulnerabilities to environmental shocks such as floods, droughts, and heatwaves. Kenya’s economy has always depended heavily on environmental goods and services. Kenya’s economic growth is intensifying, and it is crucial that environmentally sustainable approaches are part of this process. In addition, Kenya’s diverse regional landscapes create the necessity for versatile environmental regulatory policies which can be adapted to suit local environmental conditions, challenges, and opportunities. Kenya has a wide range of progressive environmental policies, but implementation remains a challenge. Implementationis often characterized by weak technical and managerial capacity, poor coordination, and inadequate funding. Political commitment does not always match the urgency of policy rhetoric. This is partly because the benefits to improved environmental management are often slow to mature and do not match short-term election cycles. Devolution has added to the challenge. While the responsibility for implementing environmental policies has moved to counties, there is not necessarily a parallel transfer of appropriate technical expertise. While institutional coordination remains weak, inadequate budget allocations and slow budgetary transfers are common. This is a problem for the county administrations and hampers the implementation of environmental (and other) policies and plans. 2020-06-19T14:12:34Z 2020-06-19T14:12:34Z 2019-10 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/939861592515485722/Kenya-Country-Environmental-Analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33949 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Country Environmental Analysis Economic & Sector Work Africa Kenya |
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The Kenya Country Environmental Analysis
(CEA) presents recent findings and trends on key
environmental challenges and opportunities. The CEA
identifies a set of recommendations that are necessary to
both strengthen the country’s environmental management
capabilities and ensure that environmental issues are
adequately incorporated into broader development initiatives
and investments. The core of Kenya’s poverty and
environmental problems lies at the nexus of population
growth, inequality, and high dependence on natural
resource–based incomes. A rapidly rising population
increases the numbers of people seeking natural
resource–based livelihood opportunities placing further
pressures on already fragile ecosystems. Climate change is
accelerating the impact of existing vulnerabilities to
environmental shocks such as floods, droughts, and
heatwaves. Kenya’s economy has always depended heavily on
environmental goods and services. Kenya’s economic growth is
intensifying, and it is crucial that environmentally
sustainable approaches are part of this process. In
addition, Kenya’s diverse regional landscapes create the
necessity for versatile environmental regulatory policies
which can be adapted to suit local environmental conditions,
challenges, and opportunities. Kenya has a wide range of
progressive environmental policies, but implementation
remains a challenge. Implementationis often characterized by
weak technical and managerial capacity, poor coordination,
and inadequate funding. Political commitment does not always
match the urgency of policy rhetoric. This is partly because
the benefits to improved environmental management are often
slow to mature and do not match short-term election cycles.
Devolution has added to the challenge. While the
responsibility for implementing environmental policies has
moved to counties, there is not necessarily a parallel
transfer of appropriate technical expertise. While
institutional coordination remains weak, inadequate budget
allocations and slow budgetary transfers are common. This is
a problem for the county administrations and hampers the
implementation of environmental (and other) policies and plans. |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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