The LECRD project in conjunction with the UNDP-DFID
funded UN Joint Programme on Climate Change supported Climate Public
Expenditure and Budget Review (CPEBR) capacity building workshops across
different Counties. This is in line with the LECRD’s key result area 2 on
strengthening national climate change coordination processes through
establishing mechanisms to track climate finance flows. The LECRD project in conjunction with the UNDP-DFID
funded UN Joint Programme on Climate Change supported Climate Public
Expenditure and Budget Review (CPEBR) capacity building workshops across
different Counties. This is in line with the LECRD’s key result area 2 on
strengthening national climate change coordination processes through
establishing mechanisms to track climate finance flows.The LECRD project in conjunction with the UNDP-DFID
funded UN Joint Programme on Climate Change supported Climate Public
Expenditure and Budget Review (CPEBR) capacity building workshops across
different Counties. This is in line with the LECRD’s key result area 2 on
strengthening national climate change coordination processes through
establishing mechanisms to track climate finance flows.
The LECRD Project held
capacity building workshops from the 13th to 29th April
2016 targeting accountants, economists, finance and environmental officers from
Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as County official in
planning, environment and finance sectors. County representation was drawn from
all 47 Counties segregated in to 6 key Cluster regions covering Mount Kenya,
Central Rift, North Rift, Western region and the Coastal region. They were held
in Nanyuki, Naivasha, Eldoret, Kisumu and Mombasa towns respectively per
region. One meeting was held in Naivasha for the MDAs. This exercise was ably
guided by a team from the National Treasury in collaboration with the Ministry
of Devolution and Planning. The excise was conducted through presentations,
relevant examples and sharing of experiences from the participants. There was
also a questionnaire administered to access
the participants understanding on key climate finance
issues. Participants were
sensitized on the draft climate finance policy and tracking climate finance
through coding under the Integrated Financial Management Information System
(IFMIS) for both national and county planning and budgetary process. This
process would lead to implementation of the National Policy on Climate Finance
and Green Climate Fund. In addition, the identification and tracking of climate
finance related flows and expenditure in to the national budgetary system
through IFMIS will enable Kenya to account for climate related expenditure at
the National and County level.
There was positive feedback with participants decreeing
that they had understood issues touching on climate finance, climate coding and
how to identify and track climate relevant expenditure across different
sectors. They also understood the incorporation of mitigation and adaptation
expenditures in the IFMIS system through component 8. They further expressed that
they had realized the opportunities open to them to access climate change funds
through the Green Climate Fund for their climate related activities which have
previous been under budgeted for.
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