The National Drought and Disaster Contingency Fund: The NDDCF will reduce the response and turn-around period.
Integrated Drought Early Warning System: This will provide accurate drought early warning information to all actors and triggers for response.
Integrated Knowledge Management System for Drought: This will be a platform where data, information and learning on drought and ending drought emergencies will be collected, collated and disseminated
Hunger Safety Net Programme: The NDMA will take on institutional responsibility for implementation of the HSNP and oversee its scale-up within the national drought management system
The sectoral priority projects include:
Establishing 23 County Early Warning & Response Hubs to support drought & conflict mitigation;
Implementation of targeted peace dividend projects in 23 ASAL counties;
Constructing and rehabilitating nine water supply systems in the ASAL counties;
Scale up the High Impact Nutrition Intervention (HINI) in ASAL counties;
Range land rehabilitation, fodder production & conservation;
Promotion of ecotourism, gums & resins & aloe production as alternative sources of livelihoods;
Establishment food security and drought information platform;
Constructing, upgrading or rehabilitating 2,209 km of priority roads in ASAL region;
Establishment of 20 solar-powered ICT Maarifa centers;
Harnessing ASAL region’s energy potential through construction of various wind farms;
Constructing and/or rehabilitating nine water supply systems in well-established permanent settlements in the arid region;
Constructing 9 waste water treatment plants and 9 solid waste management projects in well-established permanent settlements in the arid region;
Groundwater Mapping in Turkana and Marsabit, Isiolo and four other counties selected on the basis of their water stress indices;
Establishment of and operationalise the National Council on Nomadic Education in Kenya (NACONEK);
Establishment of one computer laboratory in each ASAL primary school;
Improving 100 existing mobile schools;
Constructing and equiping 70 Community Learning Resource Centres (CLRCs) in arid and pastoral counties;
Equiping 600 low-cost boarding schools in 14 arid and pastoral counties;
Constructing 15 feeder schools in each of 14 arid and pastoral counties;
Constructing and equip one middle-level college in 6 ASAL counties;
Establishment of and strengthening outreach and mobile clinics among nomadic communities;
Completion and operationalisation of the abattoirs in Isiolo, Wajir and Lokichoggio, with a clear management model in place for each, in partnership with the private sector;
Preservation of 3,000 hectares of fodder in Turkana, Marsabit and Garissa counties;
Dry land crop production, through production and marketing of drought-tolerant crops in semi-arid areas;
Establishment and operationalise the Northern Kenya Investment Fund (NKIF);
Operationalisation of Livestock Marketing Board;
Establishment of a national livestock insurance scheme;
Range lands rehabilitation, fodder production and conservation;
Apiculture, eco-tourism, gums and resins and aloe vera production and emerging livestock promotion;
Conservation agriculture promotion in semi-arid areas;
Marketing, value addition and agro-processing in 23 semi-arid counties;
Development of land use/land cover assessments for spatial planning of ASAL region;
Rainwater harvesting expansion and construction of sand dams in 9 counties.
