Environment Action Plan: Preparation guidelines (2016-2022) aims at guiding the development of the Environmental Action Plans at both the County level and the National level and subsequently helping integrate environmental concerns into development. Environmental Action planning involves assessment and profiling of environmental concerns and designing strategic interventions to address such concerns through planning.
This document is divided into Five sections. Section 1 covers the preliminaries and outlines the logistical activities that are important for undertaking the environment action planning process. Section 2 presents the Environmental profiling process and includes the listing of the theme areas and environmental problem analysis. It presents the thematic sectors that provide the contextual, spatial and the temporal scope of the plan. Section 3 presents the writing of the Action Plan. It covers Visioning, formulation of the Goal, and formulation of the purpose and scope of the plan. It also presents the annotated chapters of the guidelines and provides the standard format of the Environmental Action plan. It provides specific elements of the plan that include; themes, sub-themes. Section 4 presents a list of Environmental Indicators ordering the core indicators that would be used for measuring the performance of the Action Plan and the outcome indicators measuring environmental integrity .he incorporation of indicators will be critical in environmental assessment and profiling, and subsequent monitoring of environmental status geared towards the achievement of specific environmental outcomes. Section 5 presents the review of the Environmental Action Plan, the implementation plan matrix and the monitoring plan matrix, the investment plan matrix and a section on reporting and celebrating the implementation of the Environmental Action plan.
The thematic areas considered for the Environmental Action Plan includes the following: Land and Soils; Climate Change and Variability; Water Resources and Pollution; Wildlife and Biodiversity and Tourism; Coastal Marine and Wetlands; Forest Woodland and Ecosystems; Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries'; Settlement, Urbanization and Transportation; Energy, Mining, Industry and Trade; Health Sanitation and Waste; Environmental Hazards and Disasters; Research Technology and Innovation; Environmental Governance, Compliance and Enforcement; People Environment and Economy; Environment and Climate Change Finance; Public-Private Partnership; Plan Implementation; Emerging Environmental and Transboundary Issues.