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SEA Lake Turkana - Kenya

Project details

Status

Ongoing

Activity type

ESIA/SEA advice

Last modified

09 March 2026

Lake Turkana project's main objective – sustainable management of the ecosystem of Lake Turkana and its river basins. The actual ambition is to develop an institutional mechanism to regulate the distribution of water between the two countries. The project consists of the following five components :

  • Development of a coordination mechanism for management of Lake Turkana and its river basins;
  • Development of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) (for basin plan.);
  • Support development of basin plan for sustainable ecosystem management of Lake Turkana and its river basins;
  • Support development of Green Villages along Lake Turkana and its river basins;
  • Support development of a monitoring plan of the ecosystem of Lake Turkana and its river basins.
  • The NCEA will provide the following main activities:

  • Independent advice on ToR for the desk study (this is a baseline study and first component of the proposed SEA);
  • Independent review of the desk study. 
  • Advisory reports and other documents

    Advisory review

    Parties involved

    Members of the working group

    Pieter van der Zaag

    Chair

    Tanya van Gool

    Technical secretary

    Arend Kolhoff