2. About KEPSA –The apex body for the private
sector in Kenya
• KEPSA brings together over 500,000
businesses including SMEs from all
sectors of the economy under one
umbrella to engage the government
and other stakeholders in one voice on
areas of policy dialogues, planning ,
partnership and collaborations' as well
as areas interest or issues of concern
to businesses.
• KEPSA’s main focus is to ensure a
stable, secure and enabling business
environment for private sector
development in Kenya.
• KEPSA has institutionalized Public
Private Dialogue engagements well-
structured spanning all levels of
government from the President, the
Ministries, State Departments and
Agencies, to Counties and regional
level.
3. Institutionalized PPD Engagement
platforms
Presidential
Round Table
Ministerial
Stakeholders
Forum
16 Sector
Boards
Public
Private
Dialogu
e
Key KEPSA’s PPD Platforms include;
1. Presidential Roundtable
2. Ministerial Stakeholders Forums
3. Speaker’s Round Table (both Senate
and the National Assembly)
4. Council of Governor’s
5. Chief Justice Forum
6. Regional Forums Engagements
7. Development Partners Roundtable
8. Regular engagement with other
Government Agencies including:
Attorney General, Kenya Revenue
Authority , Climate Change Directorate
etc.
4. The SECTOR BOARDS
KEPSA SECTOR BOARDS
1 Agriculture, Livestock & Fisheries 8 ICT
2 Devolution & Planning 9 Industrialization & Trade
3 East African Community 10 Labor and Productivity
4 Education 11 Transport & Infrastructure
5 Energy & Extractives 12 Lands & Physical Planning
6 Environment, Water & Natural
Resources
13 Public Finance
7 Gender & Youth 14 Security
8 Health 16 Sports, Arts & Culture
5. Private sector role in shaping policy Climate Change
Frameworks in Kenya
► KEPSA has private sector umbrella
body has taken a leading role in
shaping the policy and legal framework
for addressing climate change in Kenya.
► The KEPSA Environment, Water and
Natural Resources‘ Sector Board is where
KEPSAs sustainable environmental
management strategies is domiciled.
► The sector board has a subsector caucus
on Climate Change.
► Private Sector Consultation meeting on
May 2018 on adaptation technical
analysis and second national climate
change action plan
6. National Climate Change Response Strategy, 2010
First national policy document to acknowledge the reality of climate change.
National Climate Change Action Plan, 2013-2017
Takes forward the implementation of the NCCRS
Identifies priority actions for Kenya to address climate change.
Informs national and county development and policy decisions in all sectors
o the economy
Climate Change Act 2016 ( National Climate Change
Council) country coordination mechanism. Private sector
is a member of the council
National Adaptation Plan, 2015-2030
Vision: enhanced climate resilience towards the attainment of Vision 2030.
Identifies macro-level actions and sub-actions in 20 Medium Term Plan
planning sectors to guide adaptation action in the short, medium and long
term.
National climate change action plan 2018 – 2022
Climate Change Budget Tracking and Coding
Environmental audit and impact assessment regulations
Climate Change Finance Regulations
Private sector in Shaping Climate
change policy in Kenya
7. Current Framework for Private
Sector Engagement in Adaptation
NCC
• National Climate Change Plans
MoEF- CCD
• Coordinate Stakeholders
• Coordinate Planning
National Climate
Change Action
Plan
• National Adaptation Technical analysis
• Private Sector Engagement Framework
• National Adaptation Steering Committee
• Monitoring Reporting and Verification
Ministerial
Engagement's
•Climate SMART Agriculture Engagement
Framework
•Green Growth and Employment Program
•Partnering for Green Growth and Global
Goals
The National Climate Change Action Plan (2018 –
2022) mainstreams engagement of private sector
in the implementation adaptation priority actions
measuring and reporting
8. Proposed Structure for Engaging Private Sector in
Adaptation
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TW
G 1
STEERING
COMMITTEE
JOINT
TECHNICAL
COMMITTEE
TW
G
2
TW
G 3
TW
G 4
TW
G 5
TW
G 6
TW
G 7
To enhance an open inclusive engagement framework
, private sector representatives' and Government in
2018 developed an engagement frameworks inclusive
of a governance structure as follows .
9. Proposed Structure for Engaging
Private Sector
Joint Technical Committee
The committee will constitute chair persons from private sector appointed within the TWGs
and representatives from government sector ministries and will offer technical guidance on the
activities under the framework. The JTC will prepare the combined report and report to the
SC.
Thematic Working Group
The private sector organizations through their sectors, sector boards or thematic areas will
appoint six TWG members. The TWG committee will meet every quarter to discuss and review
the reports from each TWGs . The TWG will collect and collate the reports and report to the
JTC during the quarterly meetings through the TWG chairs. The Secretariat for the TWGs will
come from the private sector.
The thematic working groups will be formed around the key priority intervention areas of the
NAP/NCCAP which could be reviewed during the review and updating process.
Steering Committee
The committee Steering Committee : Composed of the Principal Secretary, Ministry responsible
for climate change affairs, and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of umbrella bodies or their
representatives of private sector institutions. It will be co- chaired by representative nominated
by body representing largest number of private institutions in private sector and the PS
responsible for climate change affairs
10. PRIVATE SECTOR ACTORS IMPLEMENTING
ADAPTATION
Program Description Partner's
Switch Africa Green – Focused on resilient and adaptive
strategies by SMEs in the agriculture
sector.( Sweet and Dried)
KEPSA, KAAA, UNDP,
UNEP)
Sustainable inclusive
business
Awareness creation and building
capacity of private sector to adopt
practices that maximize their
bottom-line at least cost to the
environment and the people
KEPSA, Government of
Netherlands
Partnering for Green
Growth and Global Goals
SDG 2 Food Security
SDG 6 and 7, 12, 13 and Circular
Economy
KEPSA, National Treasury,
Ministry of Environment
and Forestry ,Vision 2030
Secretariat
11. PRIVATE SECTOR ACTORS IMPLEMENTING
ADAPTATION
Program Description Partner's
Kenya livestock
insurance program
In 2015, the Government of
Kenya in partnership with
private sector piloted the
first government insurance
scheme in Africa in Wajir
and Turkana counties
Kenya Livestock insurance
Programme uses satelllite
based index insurance to
support pastoralists'
access to manage risks and
losses amongst smallholder
farmers.
The project has been scaled
up
Government of
Kenya, International
Livestock Reseach
Institute ( ILRI)
world Bank, funding
form Netherlands'
Foreign Affairs
Ministry of and the
USAID, global Index
Facility, and Kenyan
insurance
Companies
Crop insurance will
be expanded to
cover 31 counties
while the livestock
insurance
programme will be
expanded to cover
500,000 households
(2.5 million TLUs) in
14 Arid and Semi-
Arid Lands (ASAL)
counties.
12. PRIVATE SECTOR ACTORS IMPLEMENTING
ADAPTATION
Program Description Partner's
BIDCO and bamboo Contract farming arrangement for
bamboo tree plating for 1 billion
bamboo trees thus providing a
guaranteed market for farmers
BIDCO,Africa Plantation
Capital Management Limited,
Kitil farm
Replenish Africa Initiative
( RAIN)
Established the first Africa Water
fund knows the Upper Tana Nairobi
Water Fund
Between year 2017 – 2019 596,000
people with improved water access;
20,000 women economically
empowered, 24,500 farmers are
applying soil conservation and
water-saving methods,Additional
220 Water Pans excavated,.
Coca Cola, The Nature
Conservancy, Nairobi Water
and Sewerage Company
13. PRIVATE SECTOR ACTORS IMPLEMENTING
ADAPTATION
Program Description Partner's
Water Harvesting
Program
Seventeen boreholes and water harvesting
equipment installed were dug across the
country and communities trained on water
harvesting techniques. 75,200 community
members between year 2017 - 2019
Safaricom
Foundation
Jilishe kisha uuze
initiative
Local raw material sourcing of sourghum
where KBL provides ready market to small
holder farmers in ASAL areas who grows
sorghum and millet in Kenya and targets to
Increase sorghum production from 18,000
metric tonnes to 30,000 metric tonnes. Since
inception of programme 32,000 farmers
enrolled into the programme. 32,000 farmers
have been enrolled into the programme from
Kitui,Tharaka, Embu, Kilifi, Siaya, and Kisumu
Counties
Kenya Breweries
Limited
14. PRIVATE SECTOR ACTORS IMPLEMENTING
ADAPTATION
Program Description Partner's
Kenya Bankers Association
Study
Commissioned a research titled,
“Assessment of Green
Investment Opportunities in
Kenya.”The objective of the
study was to quantify the
investment opportunity for
green investments in Kenya, to
identify barriers and to propose
solutions for creating bankable
projects. 3 three key sectors
prioritised (1) Agriculture
Livestock and Forestry (2)
Transport and (3) Manufacturing.
Kenya Green Bonds
Program. KBA.WWF,
KEPSA
15. PRIVATE SECTOR ACTORS IMPLEMENTING
ADAPTATION
Program Description Partner's
Water Harvesting Program Seventeen boreholes and water
harvesting equipment installed
were dug across the country
and communities trained on
water harvesting techniques.
75,200 community members
between year 2017 - 2019
Safaricom Fondation
Kenya AgricultureValue
Chain Entreprises (KAVES)
project
Preventing post-harvest losses
by small holder’s farmers by
linking companies with potential
new markets.
Bell Industries
16. PRIVATE SECTOR ACTORS IMPLEMENTING
ADAPTATION
Program Description Partner's
Kenya Climate
Innovation Center
Early stage financing to procure
machinery for milling of gluten free flour
from locally available drought resistant
crops like cassava, sorghum and finger
millet
Innovative technology to produce organic
fertilizers' to help improve its soil
structure ( afri flora fertilizer)
KCIC, DASH Crop
Limited
Agri-flora organic
Solutions ,
Kalamba Fruit
Processing Plant
Makueni county fruit processing plant that
supports value addition to mangoes
farmers to reduce food loss, boost
income , increase employment, increase
market access of mangoes and generate
income for the county. Plans in place to
ensure fruits processed by the plant
access EU market.
Makueni County
IDEAS Grant
EU has expanded
support for with SH
120 million in 2018
17. PRIVATE SECTOR ACTORS IMPLEMENTING
ADAPTATION
Program Description Partner's
Trade for Sustainable
Development
Established T4SD for small and
sized enterprises' for green
economy for offering technical
assistance for sustainability
standards, climate resilience,
resource efficiency and build green
business strategies to access green
finance and international markets
for sustainable products.
The International
Trade Centre (ITC),
the joint agency of
the United Nations
and the World Trade
Organization, KCIC
GNI Plus Coalition of Investors Aims to create a coalition of
investors for Water and Forest
Sectors in Kenya
German Internative;
Climate initiative ,
AECOM. Baker
Mackenzie, Climate
Policy Initiative, MoEF
private sector
18. PEER LEARNING BY UGANDA MISSION
KEPSA, The National Treasury and Planning on 15th May 2019
hosted the a Uganda Mission led by Mr. James Kaweesi of the
Uganda Ministry of Water and Environment for a study mission on
mainstreaming private sector in climate change and budgeting.
The Ugandan Mission was glad to how private sector has been
mainstreamed and is partner with Government in formulation of
climate change policy frameworks implementation financing and
tracking.
