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The project paper incorporates climate change into the Kenya Accountable Devolution Program (KADP) as a cross-cutting issue and a focus on strengthening the capacity of the country to address climate related vulnerability, risk management and resilience, including capacity building in environmental and social risk management and safeguards. The project focuses on devolved sectors and the social development dimension of the KADP. Its overall objective is to strengthen core devolved governance systems at both national and county level with a focus on strengthening citizen's engagement and devolved service delivery in Kenya's devolution process.

The paper concludes with several key recommendations, such as:

• Effective early warning information needs to use multiple tools of communication such as local radio, village barazas, social media, mobile based communications systems, etc.

• There is a need to have data sharing agreements across relevant institutions (e.g. KMD, NDMA, KRCS, WRA etc) to ensure access of disaster related data.

• Pre-allocation of funding for the stipulated early actions is key for effective early warning and early action. There is the need for the counties to develop a county DRM fund that is separate from the already existing 2 % fund that is established for emergencies under the public finance management.

• That disaster management is shared responsibility between the national government and the county governments therefore there is need to have a proper coordination between the two levels of government and the non-state actors. A high level engagement on coordination to be organized.

• There is need for the Kenya metrological department to be part of the county disaster management committee to provide forecasts which can be used to inform on the activation of funds for disaster preparedness.