Today, I appeared before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) at Bunge Towers, to respond to issues raised by the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) for the Financial Years 2023/2024 and 2024/2025. The engagement provided an opportunity to respond to the audit queries, provide the necessary clarifications, and highlight measures being undertaken to strengthen accountability, transparency and prudent management of public resources. @MeteoKenya @NETFUNDkenya @necc_kenya

As part of his tour to Mau Forest Complex, the Chief of Staff and Head of the Public Service, @koske_felix commissioned Kabteta Farmers Co-operative Society in Kuresoi North, Nakuru County, as part of the ongoing efforts to strengthen livelihoods under the @MauForest_iclip.

Chief of Staff and Head of the Public Service, @koske_felix , today commissioned the Milikwеn Farmers Co-operative Society in Kuresoi South, Nakuru County.

The Chief of Staff and Head of the Public Service @koske_felix , met with professionals from the Mau region and launched the Environmental Education and Research component of the @MauForest_iclip through the primary and secondary school environmental manuals.

I held a bilateral meeting with Dr. Elinasi Monga, the International Union of Conservation Nature (ICUN)Regional Head-Land Systems Programme, Eastern and Southern Africa with the focus on strengthening the collaboration between the State Department for Environment and Climate Change and IUCN on areas of strategic interests and in line with government priorities. Our discussions centred on programmatic areas around land systems; integrated water resources management systems; ocean and coastal resilient programmes and biodiversity and climate change. I acknowledged that IUCN's relationship with Kenya is already quite broad since IUCN is already undertaking projects like biodiversity mainstreaming in productive sectors through BIODEV 2030 where IUCN handed over to Kenya policy briefs on agriculture, forestry and livestock, translating biodiversity science into sectoral policy recommendations and also appreciated that BIODEV moved beyond conservation policies and towards mainstreaming biodiversity into economic sectors. Discussions centered on how they can work together to move the BIODEV 2030 recommendations from policy briefs into actual investment programmes and regulatory reforms. The discussions also focused on rangelands restoration and community resilience to address biodiversity loss, rangeland degradation, invasive species, climate vulnerability and resource based conflicts. The IUCN GEF supported project on strengthening forest management for improved biodiversity conservation and climate resilience in Kenya’s southern rangelands, with IUCN as the implementing agency was reviewed and potential future opportunities to develop a larger national programme around forest landscape restoration, biodiversity and community benefits and including better integration with Kenya’s climate and carbon-market framework discussed. The IUCN work on marine and coastal biodiversity could also complement Kenya’s wider marine and coastal conservation agenda and also connect with the Nairobi Convention and UNEP’s Western Indian Ocean Programme. We agreed that the strongest future opportunity is to move from individual conservation and biodiversity projects toward a more strategic Kenya-IUCN environmental partnership linked to Kenya’s MEA implementation, climate agenda, circular economy and environmental finance including: implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework; biodiversity finance; carbon markets and biodiversity safeguards; circular economy and nature positive production; nature based solutions and ecosystem restoration; and science; data and environmental monitoring. We are looking forward to the implementation of the project ‘Unlocking Biodiversity Action: Establishing Kenya’s National Biodiversity Coordination Mechanism’ and it’s operationalization by IUCN and the State Department in implementing Targets 14 mainstreaming biodiversity, Target 21 on knowledge, data and information sharing and Target 22 on participation and inclusion of the KMGBF. #COP17 #IUCN #Ulaanbaatar2026