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11.4.2.2
Adaptive Social Protection
The NDMA's mandate embraces multiple timescales, touching on both climate
vulnerability and climate change, which require different mechanisms. For example,
the NDMA is involved with the individualised delivery of resources through cash
transfers (primarily through the Hunger Safety Net Programme, which provides
predictable transfers to chronically food insecure households), the decentralised
fi nancing of public goods (through a number of county climate adaptation funds)
and the mitigation of both individual and collective risk through drought contin-
gency fi nance.
Each of these mechanisms has the potential to complement the others, and the
NDMA will be exploring this synergy. For example, the comprehensive database
established by the Hunger Safety Net Programme will also be used to target cash
transfers to other households during drought; this will also potentially climate-proof
the impact of the regular transfers. The county adaptation funds and the drought
contingency fund will also enhance the cash transfers by providing complementary
community-based services and investments.
11.4.2.3
Communication
The NDMA recognises that effective communication is a critical part of the drought
management system. First, it is working to ensure that early warning information is
more readily accessible to communities and in a visual form which helps them take
action. It is also exploring ways to integrate indigenous knowledge systems with the
formal early warning system. Second, it is taking steps to refresh the style and con-
tent of its monthly drought monitoring bulletins to ensure that core messages are
more readily understood and absorbed and thus prevent the waning of interest in
early warning information during 'normal' periods.
11.4.2.4
Insurance
The weak link in the drought management system remains that of predictable and
accessible fi nance. One potential source of fi nance for the NDCF, once it is estab-
lished, may be the African Risk Capacity (ARC). The ARC is an initiative of the
African Union, a pooled risk fi nancing mechanism that will generate payouts to
countries which have joined the scheme once drought conditions pass a certain
threshold. Kenya is in the process of discussing the terms of its membership. The
development of the ARC, like the African Union's Policy Framework for Pastoralism
in Africa and the current initiative on drought resilience by the Intergovernmental
Authority on Development (IGAD), is evidence of the emergence of stronger
African leadership in drylands in recent years.
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