OUR SERVICES
The National Drought Management Authority Act (2016) mandates the Authority to exercise overall coordination over all matters relating to drought risk management and to establish mechanisms, either on its own or with stakeholders, that will end drought emergencies in Kenya.
Drought Resilience
Building resilience by investing in sustainable development in drought-prone areas and by mainstreaming risk reduction into processes of development planning and resource allocation
Drought Information
The Authority generates, consolidates and disseminates drought early warning information through:
Drought Contingency
Planning & Response
in combination with preparations made by communities, can significantly reduce the impact of drought.
Knowledge Management
The effectiveness in drought management and climate change adaptation activities depends on its use of accurate and timely information, and analysis of those data to inform action.
Coordination
The Authority is responsible for the establishment, institutionalization and coordination of structures for drought management by;
WHO WE ARE
The National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) is a public body established by the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) Act, 2016. It previously operated under the State Corporations Act (Cap 446) of the Laws of Kenya by Legal Notice Number 171 of November 24, 2011. The Act gives the NDMA the mandate to exercise overall coordination over all matters relating to drought risk management and to establish mechanisms, either on its own or with stakeholders, that will end drought emergencies in Kenya.
About NDMA
The history of Kenya’s work on drought management goes back to 1985, with the design of a drought contingency planning system in Turkana. In the early 1990s this system was extended to other arid districts with the support of the Netherlands government. It was then expanded further by the Emergency Drought Recovery Project (from 1992) and its successor, the ALRMP, both of them supported by the World Bank. By end of Phase II of the ALRMP, the drought management system was covering 28 arid and semi-arid districts (now 23 counties).
Responsibility Of Corporate
The NDMA provides a platform for long-term planning and action, as well as a mechanism for solid coordination across Government and with all other stakeholders. The Authority has established offices in 23 ASAL counties considered vulnerable to drought.
23
ASAL counties
26.45%
Of the population
CASE STUDIES
STRATEGIC PLAN
Monthly drought updates – April 2023
STRATEGIC PLAN
FEEDBACK ON DRAFT NDMA STRATEGIC PLAN 2023-2027
Collective Approach
2022 Short Rains Assessment Report
SUCCESS STORIES
It is only mid-morning in Mata-Arba village in Cherab Ward, Isiolo North Sub-county but the fierce sun belies the time of day. Mrs Halima Wako walks to a watering point with a 20-litre jerrican to draw water for domestic use. She joins other women waiting their turn at different water kiosks in the vicinity.
Isiolo:Water project changes fortunes for women
Isiolo
Learning goes on as usual at Cieria Primary School in Mbeere SouthSub-county of Embu. The classes are full, children attentive and teachers settled. While this may seem normal, it was not always the case. Children would often report late to school or even miss classes altogether as they joined their parents in search of water at Kiambere Dam about 15 kilometers away.
Green energy enhances water access, saves costs for school
Embu
NDMA is currently undertaking registration of poor and vulnerable households in Isiolo, Garissa, Samburu, and Tana River counties to bring on board additional beneficiaries under the Hunger Safety Net Programme. A total of 568,539 households have so far been enumerated across the four counties. At the end of the exercise, the Government will be able to bring on board a further 32,000 households into the routine bimonthly cash transfer bracket.
HSNP beneficiary registration nearing completion
Isiolo, Garissa, Samburu, and Tana River counties
Intra-county interventions may not respond to the experiences of communities in prolonged or frequent drought episodes, especially where there is mutual interdependence, mobility and ecosystem linkages.
NDMA supports inter-county, multi-sector engagement for Drought Risk Management
Isiolo
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