Lessons learned for improving policies affecting forest conservation and climate change adaptation in Kenya's water tower communities

Key points

• Biodiversity conservation and livelihood policies are poorly integrated, undermining the implementation of both.
• National strategies for CC adaptation and mitigation follow traditional ministerial silos, risking the replication of problems associated with isolated portfolio approaches.
• Successful ecosystem-based adaptation on Mount Elgon requires greater cooperation between ministries, decentralized (local) governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local communities to:
  
  • Integrate conservation (CC mitigation) and development (CC adaptation) objectives and activities.
  • Build coherence in spatial planning to achieve biodiversity conservation, watershed protection, disaster mitigation, and agricultural intensification across landscapes.
• Decentralized governments have the potential to serve as coordinating bodies for jurisdictional EbA strategies and lead development of subnational CC initiatives.

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