The Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, and Forestry looks forward to working with all stakeholders to realise the Ministerial vision and national constitutional aspiration of a clean, safe, healthy, sustainably managed, resilient environment and natural resources for the benefit of present and future generations.
Speaking during the launch of the Ministry’s 2023–2027 Strategic Plan, Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya said the plan will serve as a road map to guide the Ministry, its development partners, and Kenyans actions that lead towards a resilient and sustainable environment.
“It is with great enthusiasm that I present the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, and Forestry’s 2023–2027 Strategic Plan. Through this 5-year Strategic Plan, the Ministry recognises the critical role played by the environment, climate action, and forestry sectors in sustaining life, supporting livelihoods, and driving Kenya’s economic transformation agenda.” Said the Minister
She said the Ministry is cognizant of the enormity of the task ahead and has identified the opportunities available to enable the sector to undertake the broad constitutional and social mandate of safeguarding a sustainable environment, healthy ecosystems, and sustained biodiversity in line with various multilateral and bilateral regulatory and policy frameworks, including Kenya Vision 2030 and the Kenya Kwanza Government Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).
At the core of this Strategic plan, she said, is the BETA framework, which seeks to, among other priorities, open up the environment, climate action, and forestry value chains for wealth and job creation.
“As a Ministry, we endeavour to ensure that this Strategic Plan will be able to deliver tangible livelihood benefits to Kenyans across the country alongside raising the sector’s contribution to Kenya’s GDP,” observed the CS.
Climate change, land degradation, biodiversity loss, pollution, depletion of natural resources, and sustainable waste management are some of the environmental, climate action, and forestry issues that have been identified and prioritised as urgent and requiring targeted interventions for inter- and intra-generational equity.
The Strategic Plan underscores our deep commitment to addressing identified challenges through a 3-P approach where people, planet, and Profit will be the centerboards of our interventions.
Further, this Plan outlines the Ministry’s priorities and actions that will be taken to achieve our goals and mandate over the next five years. To achieve the objectives set out in this Strategic Plan, the Ministry has taken a people-centred approach in the implementation of programmes, plans, and policies.
The Ministry will leverage collaborative efforts with partners and enhanced public participation, as well as the BETA principles of a bottom-up approach to service delivery, to ensure whole-of-society involvement in the implementation of our broad mandate and related government priority programmes that may be assigned to the Ministry.
By Joseph Kamolo
