This document outlines the outcomes and activities of Kenya's Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development Project. The project aimed to [1] strengthen national climate change coordination, [2] enhance access to clean energy, [3] establish a national greenhouse gas inventory system, [4] improve climate change decision-making tools, and [5] build climate change capacity and resilience. It identifies gaps in Kenya's existing greenhouse gas inventory system and lists actions needed to establish an operational national inventory system, such as developing standardized data collection processes and country-specific emission factors.

1. Yvonne Nyokabi & David Adegu

2. Low Emission and Climate Resilient
Development Project
Outcomes
1) National climate change coordination processes
strengthened
2) Access to clean and efficient energy systems enhanced
3) A national sustainable GHG inventory system established
4) National and county decision making tools for climate
change interventions improved
5) Climate knowledge management and capacity enhanced
6) Impacts of extreme climate events for improved and
resilient livelihoods minimized

3.  The Low Emission Capacity Building project
supported building capacity to develop:
 GHG national inventory system
 Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs)
 The Project responds to capacity gaps in the national
GHG inventory system as identified in the Initial
National Communication (INC) to the UNFCCC:
 Inadequate data storage and management systems on an
annual basis, lack of documented and archived procedures
 Lack of local empirical emission factors, hence the
application of IPCC default values despite the inconsistency
with local conditions in some instances

4. 1) Planning, Communication and Institutional Arrangements
2) Data Collection, Documentation, Software Applications
and Analysis Methods
3) Development, Review and Description of QA/QC
Procedures
4) Development, Review and Description of Archiving
System
5) Key category analysis KCA and Uncertainty Assessment
6) Development of National Inventory Improvement Plan
(NIIP)
7) Strengthening National Capacities for Inventory Planning
and Management.

5. III. Institutional Arrangements
Energy compilers
AFOLU compilers
IPPU compilers
Waste compilers
Inventory
Consolidation
Compilation
Guidelines &
Instructions
NGOs and UN-
Organization
Environmental Agencies
National statistics
Agency
International
Organizations
Industry/Private sector
Other Inventories
Research organizations
Academic institutions
Data Providers
GHG Inventory Compilation
Academic Research
NGOs
National Statistics Body
Environmental
Agencies
EXTERNAL
REVIEWERS
Stakeholders/reviewers
Reporting to
UNFCCC
Ministry responsible for
climate change
NCCS
Inventory Oversight
QA/QC, Technical,
Planning
NEMA.
Compliance and
enforcement
Taskforce
Decision support

6. Clinics: AFOLU Sector Team Clinic
1: Communication Roles and
Responsibilities
Working Sessions: IPPU and Waste
Team; Identifying Important Sources
and Sinks
IV. Approaches and Methods

7. Energy Sector Team Developing Work
Plan (tool) for Data Collection
Plenary Sessions: Ag. Director
National Climate Change
Secretariat, Reacting to Plenary
Presentation
IV. Approaches and Methods Cont’

8. IPPU and Waste Sector Team
members engaged in a
Documentation exercise
IV. Approaches and Methods Cont’
Training sessions

9. AFOLAFOLU Team Compiling Data Using IPCC 2006/1996 Inventory Software
AFOLU sector team members inputting data using inventory software

10. VI. Data collection and Archiving
Overall Coordinator
Waste& IPPU-NEMA
Lead Coordinator
Waste NEMA
Lead IPPU Coordinator
Min. of Industrialization
Waste Sector
Compilers
IPPU Sector Compilers
Representative
Kenya Revenue
Authority

11. VI. Data collection and Archiving Cont’
Lead Coordinator Energy
Min. of Energy
Lead Transport
Coordinator
Min. of Transport
Overall Coordinator
Min. Energy
Transport Sub-Sector
Compilers
Energy Sub-Sector
Compilers – Renewable
Energy
Energy Sub-Sector
Compilers – Fossil Fuel

12. VI. Data collection and Archiving Cont’
Overall Coordinator
AFOLU - KFS
Lead Coordinator Livestock
(State Department of Livestock)
Lead Coordinator LULUCF
(Kenya Forest Services)
Compilers LULUC (DRSSRS)
Compilers Agriculture (State
Department of Agriculture)
Compilers Forest Changes
(REDD) (KFS)

13. VII. Data Sharing Procedures

14. VIII. Identified Gaps
1) Inadequate of awareness on the importance of GHG
inventories within some of relevant institutions – All
sectors but mainly IPPU and Waste
2) Current data collection systems not tailored for GHG
inventory leading to poor disaggregation and formats
– all sectors
3) Inadequate technical capacity to generate
appropriate activity datasets at source level; policy,
communication structure, formats, Funding
4) Inadequate documentation of relevant information;

15. VIII. Identified Gaps Cont’
6) Inadequate measures to incorporate the
devolved governance systems; County
Governments
7) Inadequate country specific activity data and
emission factors
8) Few dedicated staff and or staff time for GHG
inventory compilation
9) Inconsistent and incomplete data collection with
low levels of reliability and transparency,

16. IX. Required Actions
1) Institutional frameworks that support the
implementation and maintenance of sustainable
national GHG Inventory management system;
especially to facilitate data collection and
archiving.
2) Establish and implement a systematic,
standardized process and formats to collect, assess
and share activity data and or maps and
documentations.
3) Integration of GHG requirements in annual national
reporting/statistics reports

17. IX. Required Actions Cont’
4) Develop/ generate up to date and nationally
agreed upon land use classification schemes and
spatial LULCF data (1990 to 2014 with up to 2030
projection) data sets using the free Landsat
Imagery.
5) Awareness creation among key stakeholders as
identified in the capacity building project tasks
6) Consider data collection at the county level and
other source level
7) Strengthening Capacities for Data Archiving,
Analysis and Management

18. Towards an Operational National GHG Inventory
system
 GHG Inventory Institutional structures reviewed
(2015)
 Data formats agreed upon and data exchange
modalities proposed(2015)
 Support towards the equipping of the GHG unit
(April – May 2016)
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19. Development of Kenya Specific Emission Factors
 Training on ‘Measurement of greenhouse gases from
the Agricultural Sector” (21st- 24th March, 2016).
Training in collaboration with IAEA and KALRO
 30 participants trained with different expertise
that will form part of the pool of experts to be
trained to carry out research work on Kenya
specific emission factors in the AFOLU sector
 Review and development of Kenya specific emission
factors including research with collaborating institution
(2016)
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GHG Measurement Training Workshop, KALRO
Field Work During The GHG Measurements Training

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