Climate Resilience Dashboard
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Welcome to the Climate Resillience Dashboard developed under the TWENDE (Towards Ending Drought Emergencies: Ecosystem Based Adaptation in Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Rangelands) project. The dashboard is developed by World Agroforestry (ICRAF) Spatial Data Science and Applied Learning lab with input from the eleven participating Kenyan counties and the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
The project
TWENDE aims to reduce the cost of climate change induced drought on Kenya’s national economy by increasing resilience of the livestock and other land use sectors through restored and effectively governed rangeland ecosystems. The project will contribute to improved adaptation to climate change of Kenya’s national policy of “Ending Drought Emergencies”, as outlined in “Kenya Vision 2030”.
The project is implemented in three landscapes encompassing 11 counties. The target landscapes face challenges of weak capacities for landscape planning, poor access to climate data and analysis, and low access to markets and financial services. This is addresses through three components:
- Component 1: Climate change adapted planning for drought resilience
- Component 2: Restoration of rangeland landscapes for ecosystem based adaptation
- Component 3: Investments and incentives for climate change resilient ecosystem management
This dashboard
This dashboard is a dedicated tool designed to assist eleven Kenyan counties in monitoring land health, climate and droughts. It provides comprehensive data integration, including land use, biodiversity, and climate variables, to support informed decision-making. The dashboard offers a user-friendly interface for stakeholders to access and utilize data effectively, and enhance environmental resilience and sustainable development in Kenya's landscapes. Explore how the Climate Resillience Dashboard is fostering a greener, more prosperous future for Kenya.
Data: The main source of information on this dashboard comes from open-access global satellite missions. Specifically, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite missions were used to derive
vegetation, precipitation, temperature and soil moisture information. This dashboard is updated monthly to retrieve the latest data from the Google Earth Engine servers and provide the latest climate information. Additionally, this dashboard contains spatial maps of soil organic carbon, tree cover, erosion and pH (download here). These maps were produced by ICRAF SPACIAL team through machine learning models using Landsat 8 satellite data trained on thousands of soil and vegetation ground-truth data from the ICRAF database. The ICRAF database on vegetation and soil indicators was collected under the Land Degradation and Surveillance Framework (LDSF).
Disclaimer: Some of the information presented on this dashboard comes directly from global datasets without human review, and, hence, errors from either GPM or MODIS could be propagated directly to this dashboard. Hence, although this dashboard has been created with the utmost care, ICRAF does not take responsibility for any errors nor do the data and analyses represent the official position of either ICRAF, the Kenyan government, NDMA, IUCN, Conservation International nor GCF.
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