The Kenya Cereal Enhancement Programme – Climate Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Window (KCEP-CRAL) is a partnership between the Government of Kenya, the European Union and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) including grant resources from the Adaptation of Smallholder Agriculture Programme-ASAP. The Programme is expected to be completed in September 2022. It is implemented by Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation and supervised by IFAD. The overall goal is to contribute to the reduction of rural poverty and food insecurity of smallholders in the targeted Counties by developing their economic potential while improving their natural resources management capacity and resilience to climate change in an increasingly fragile ecosystem.

The KCEP-CRAL Programme is implementing activities to enhance Natural Resources Management and build resil-ience of beneficiaries to Climate Change, in order to improve productivity, through Component 1, Subcomponent 1.2. The activities aim at enhancing County Governments’ capacities in planning Natural Resource Management interventions to build resilience, and capacity building beneficiaries in sustainable Natural Resource Management to improve productivity sustainably.

The Centre for Training and Research in ASAL Development (CETRAD) is one of the Partners implementing activities focusing on setting up Geographical Information System / Remote Sensing (GIS/RS) units and capacity building of County staff in the use of spatial tools for planning on enhanced Natural Resource Management. Through the MOU signed with the Programme, CETRAD shall be responsible in implementing these activities and take lead in setting up the GIS/RS equipment in the Eight (8) Programme Counties i.e. Embu, Tharaka Nithi, Kitui, Machakos, Makueni, Kwale, Kilifi and Taita Taveta.