Grants for Local Adaptation Support to facilitate Peer-to-Peer Learning on Climate Change Adaptation Among Pastoral communities in Kenya (£10,200)

Grants for Local Adaptation Support (ASSAR-GLAS) is a competitive small grant awarded by Global System Change for Analysis Research and Training (START), on behalf of the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) and the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) Project. This grant is in recognition of the need to go beyond academic capacity building within ASSAR to do more to strengthen the capacities of those living and working in the ASSAR study sites. The GLAS is intended to draw from findings of on-going ASSAR research to support the most vulnerable groups in each region on overcoming top barriers to and supporting enablers of their adaptation. The GLAS award for the East African ASSAR research team will be particularly used to facilitate peer-to-peer learning among pastoral communities on various climate change adaptation options, among others, diversification of pastoral herds to embrace more drought tolerant species such as camels in Isiolo County; pasture production and reservation in Kajiado and Makueni Counties; and customary natural resource management in Isiolo County