BACKGROUND
Mandera County is one of the 47 counties in Kenya, located in the North Eastern part of Kenya and borders Ethiopia to the North, Somalia Republic to the East and Wajir County to the South. It is about 1,100km from the capital city of Nairobi by road. The county has an approximate population of 1,025,756 and covers an area of 25,991.5 km2. The County Administratively is subdivided into six Sub Counties namely: Mandera West, Mandera South, Banisa, Mandera North, Mandera East and Lafey and further to 30 administrative wards.
| Sub-County | Zone | Suitable Enterprises |
| Mandera East | LM (IV- VI) | Livestock keeping, irrigated agriculture along River Daua and drought tolerant crops |
| Mandera North | LM (IV- VI) | Livestock keeping, irrigated agriculture along River Daua and drought tolerant crops |
| Mandera West | LM (IV- VI) | Livestock keeping and drought tolerant crops |
| Mandera south | LM (IV-VI) | Livestock keeping and drought tolerant crops |
| Banisa | LM (IV- VI) | Livestock keeping, irrigated agriculture along River Daua and drought tolerant crops |
| Lafey | LM (V- VI) | Livestock keeping, irrigated agriculture along River Daua and drought tolerant crops |
Justification for project
Due to the 2011 drought Mandera and other ASAL counties experienced severe contraction of its economy and loss of its livelihoods which is majorly dependent on livestock.IGAD nations then came up with an initiative to stem effects of drought in future. Mandera county was chosen as a beneficiary county because of its:
- Vulnerability to Recurrent droughts;
- Cross border/Trans-boundary Resource based Conflict prone area;
- Trans-boundary livestock trade routes
Regional disease investigation and diagnostic center
Livestock is the main livelihood for 90% of the county populace. This resource is mostly hampered by disease outbreaks. The best strategy for disease management is prevention. To realize this the project and county prioritized a regional veterinary laboratory to serve the county and neighboring regions in Southern Ethiopia and neighboring Somalia regions. The regionality was informed by the fluid situation of disease spread in the triangle. The aim is to reduce the turnaround time for processing of samples as the nearest laboratory is 800km in Garissa thus enabling speedy prevention thus securing the pastoral livelihood.
The laboratory will be located in Garbakole area near Mandera town.
Achievements under thematic areas
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