Background
Turkana County is situated in North Western Kenya. It borders West Pokot and Baringo Counties to the south, Samburu County to the South East, and Marsabit County to the East. Internationally it borders South Sudan to the north, Uganda to the west and Ethiopia to the northeast. The County shares Lake Turkana with Marsabit County. The total area of the county is 77,000 Km² The county is administratively divided into 7 sub-counties, 17 divisions, 56 locations that are further sub-divided into 156 sub-locations. According to the Kenya Population and Housing Census (KPHC) 2009 results, the County population stood at 855,399. It is projected to have a total population of 1,036,586 in 2012 and 1,427,797 in 2017.
The Turkana CPIU is housed in former Helpage International Offices
The County is a border county and shares the border with Ethiopia, South Sudan and Uganda. The western border of the county lies in the Karamoja cluster where neighboring tribes of Tepesi, Dodosi, Jie, Pokots and the Turkana share a common grazing resources which often leads to resource conflicts especially during the drought periods.
All the project investment site were determined using the project criteria for siting of the project and specifics about the type of the investment and exact locatin of the investment was determined using the CMDRR tools. In summary, project areas identified based on following criteria:
- Vulnerability to recurrent droughts
- Cross border resource based conflicts prone areas
- Trans-boundary livestock trade routes
- Clustering around common issues
- Potential for fodder production and storage
- Level of environmental degradation
- Community priorities.
- Complementarity with other projects
The project covers the whole county focused on migratory routes of trans-boundary significance although main investments are in Loima and Turkana West sub counties. Disease surveillances and vaccination campaigns will cover Turkana North and Kibish besides the latter two. RPLRP is in these 4 sub counties because other partners are covering the left 3 sub counties.
Achievements under thematic areas
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