[{"bbox": [96, 163, 1157, 243], "category": "Text", "text": "Access to dignified living conditions, be it in the form of adequate housing or dignified living environment (e.g. an upgraded slum with improved shelter, sanitation, lighting, schooling, solid-waste management), are essential contributors to basic citizens' rights."}, {"bbox": [96, 244, 586, 269], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**On rural climate change adaptation and resilience**"}, {"bbox": [96, 270, 1157, 377], "category": "Text", "text": "The EDE framework reflects a recognition that vulnerability to drought risk, particularly in the northern arid counties, has been exacerbated by a history of policy neglect and marginalisation¹⁰. NDMA operations are conducted in the context of constitutional reforms that have begun to redress these inequalities and now place obligations on the State to protect the vulnerable and progressively realise a portfolio of rights, including the right to be free from hunger."}, {"bbox": [96, 408, 193, 433], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Disability**"}, {"bbox": [96, 434, 1157, 647], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as D1. This implies that the Action foresees that disability has been considered in the design of the interventions. For instance, the green public transport programme (e.g. buses would have low floors, reserved seats and space for wheelchairs, loudspeaker announcements, bus stations including ramps and wheelchair gates to facilitates access, and disability sensitisation of drivers and public transport staff); participatory slum upgrading has been developed in by communities who have been prompted to include initiatives to improve access for people with disabilities; and adequate low-cost green housing will, by virtue of focusing on households and community-led processes, involve assistance to people living in the most vulnerable situations and designs endorsed by end-users."}, {"bbox": [96, 678, 209, 704], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Democracy**"}, {"bbox": [96, 705, 599, 729], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**On Sustainable, inclusive and resilient urbanisation**"}, {"bbox": [96, 730, 1157, 834], "category": "Text", "text": "Democracy at large is not targeted but the nature of participatory slum upgrading, the establishment of public transport and unlocking the supply of owner and community-led low-cost green housing are important contributors to the well-functioning of a democratic society, in so far as people's choices matter for decisions that affect their lives."}, {"bbox": [96, 837, 586, 862], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**On rural climate change adaptation and resilience**"}, {"bbox": [96, 863, 1157, 1022], "category": "Text", "text": "Participatory analysis informs the selection and design of drought preparedness and response activities financed through the NDMA. The Authority uses a process of community managed DRR (CMDRR) and participatory disaster risk assessment which in turn leads to the development of community drought contingency plans. This action will support further mainstreaming of the CMDRR process across communities and localities. Additionally, the action supports NDMA's efforts to further align the County Integrated Development Plans (CIDP) with the EDE Mid-Term Planning framework."}, {"bbox": [96, 1067, 485, 1094], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience**"}, {"bbox": [96, 1119, 599, 1144], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**On Sustainable, inclusive and resilient urbanisation**"}, {"bbox": [96, 1146, 1157, 1409], "category": "Text", "text": "Victims of conflict are among the groups of people who end up living in precarious conditions in slums or who cannot afford housing or transport. While the interventions do not explicitly address conflict sensitivity and peace, the end users of public transport, of participatory slum upgrading and low-cost housing tend to include victims of the same and hence may contribute to 'restitution'. The urbanisation interventions do aim at improving resilience at multiple levels: i) an adequate house is one of the most important assets for household to withstand potential shocks be it social, economic or health wise; ii) an improved living environment in a slum with improved drainage and sanitation will improve the communities resilience to flooding or contagious diseases; iii) communities that engage into process of collaborative rehabilitation will be more cohesive in addressing ways of improving resilience in various fronts; iv) if public transport improves the congestion in the city, it will be less vulnerable to diseconomies of scale which limit the ability and resources for GoK to invest in resilience."}, {"bbox": [96, 1411, 586, 1437], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**On rural climate change adaptation and resilience**"}, {"bbox": [96, 1438, 1157, 1570], "category": "Text", "text": "Communities in ASAL counties cannot build secure and sustainable livelihoods for as long as insecurity and violence persist. Insecurity constrains access to services and productive resources, particularly the mobility on which pastoral production depends, while drought stress may exacerbate inter-communal tension. For these reasons, peace and security is an integral part of the EDE framework (one of the 6 pillars contained in the framework) and conflict sensitivity a consideration in the design of drought preparedness and response interventions. Project activities will"}, {"bbox": [86, 1618, 245, 1644], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁰ EDE MTR, p.10"}, {"bbox": [1056, 1681, 1170, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 19 of 37"}]