Data-driven integrated planning tools for sustainable investment in Kisumu, Kenya
Kisumu county, Kenya
Working with Trust 2 Impact to develop and finance a programme of interventions across the water-energy-food nexus which will be scalable to other counties especially those with similar challenges and opportunities on the shores of Lake Victoria.
We initially conducted a feasibility study, supported by Innovate UK, investigating how a fully integrated digital operating system could be connected to sustainable investment to create a stronger business opportunity in Kisumu County, Kenya.
The study examined potential Covid-19 recovery routes that would also address issues facing the region, such as severe lake pollution in Lake Victoria, health problems arising from poor sanitation, declining agriculture and fishery production and the need to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
The population of Kisumu County is expected to double in the next 20 years and this study will help to promote sustainable development in the region.
In the next phase of the project we set up the Loso Nyando Catchment Project collaboration environment, co-created with the active stakeholders by:
- Establishing a digital platform with a branded online dashboard, onboarding and training the initial cohort of users, co-developing objectives for collaboration and data collection and the management approach.
- Creating a web presence and branding
- Co-creating a systems map of the region, stakeholders and planned interventions, creating forms for data entry around key nexus processes, a framework for agroforestry data to suit investment cases and relevant case study examples.
A second round of Innovate UK funding enabled us to conduct a field visit to deepen our engagement with the local stakeholders and to gather data for a baseline study.
RVO Partners for Water funding has now enabled us to pilot forestry interventions by training farmers, planting 60,000 trees, completing a baseline study and developing an investable business case for a wider programme of 60,000ha of riparian forest, agroforestry and reforestion to regenerate the Nyando River catchment.
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