 The interest that I have on matters of climate change allows for public finance issues because there is a lot of climate financing. Kenya is a country that is basically dependent on agriculture. 80% of our populations depend on agriculture. And for that, agriculture becomes a critical area in the survival of this country. Apart from agriculture, we have other areas that have also been a major contributor to our revenue that depends on climate sensitive activities, that is water and also tourism. And so therefore we need to see how we can actually be able to mitigate the effects of climate change on these critical sectors that are the backbone of our economy. So we developed the curriculum, we developed the training materials, we engaged very experienced people from the Ministry of Environment, the Climate Change Directorate, the other relevant department, Kenya Meteorological Department, and also the National Treasury Climate Change Unit. And with that we formed a team of facilitators. The facilitators that we are using are not our normal facilitators as a school. Because as a school we have not really been having a history on matters of climate change. In fact we have just introduced one very recently. So with that pool of facilitators then you are able now to move out and we did a training in our campuses. The first two cohorts were trained here at Kabete. We had two cohorts trained in Mombasa. We had also two other cohorts trained in Matuga and we had the last cohort in Embu. So for us the biggest output we expected from that training, from that program was actually to reach to the Climate Change Coordination Unit and be able to deliver that message because we had realized that there was a major gap in terms of communication flow. And we have officers who are in climate sensitive departments but do not understand, especially the financing aspect in terms of climate change financing. We have a climate change unit. That unit was created after that program and our director general is very passionate about climate change. So immediately a unit was created and would handle all Mataza environment and climate change. My name is Sheila Mora Ngare. I work with the Climate Change Directorate of the Ministry of Environment. I was part of the training with UNCC Land. The reason why I decided to join the diplomacy training is because I really wanted to understand what happens in the COP Conference of Parties conference. To me before it used to be this mystical grouping where people will come together from all walks of life the whole world and they will all come together and discuss but I didn't understand what were they discussing about how do they discuss, how do they reach agreement on anything. And during that time we learned a lot about climate change diplomacy, what happens in the conference of parties negotiations and everything to do with climate change in general. They were able to provide us with that kind of scientific knowledge of what is climate change, what can we do about it in terms of mitigating or through adaptation techniques, what can we do about it. Climate change does impact the water sector, the agricultural sector, the private sector. It links all of us together. I'm very happy that I was involved in the NDC update in Kenya where at least I gave a contribution towards the youth sector on how the youth can contribute to how we can fight climate change in Kenya and I'm also very happy that I gave numerous presentations to one to the Ministry of Energy to some youth groups at the Council of Governors. I've given numerous presentations or talks to the Ministry of Health. Being a young person I'm able to engage with the youth in their own language so that they're able to understand the climate change technical knowledge in their own capacity. So what I would change at the COP negotiations I would want women of color to participate in the negotiations because we are the ones who are mostly affected, we are the ones who are living in regions that are heavily impacted by climate change but I don't see those faces there. Especially black women. I've not seen any prominent black women in that high level space. To me it seems only women from developed countries occupying that space and I think we need better representation. Whatever is happening at COP whatever discussions are there they should be aired for everybody and everyone to see. It should be running through new stations across the world. I encourage everyone to visit the UNCCLAD website where you'll find numerous courses that deal with climate change how you mitigate climate change how you adapt to climate change. All these courses are free. If you're very passionate about the environment if you know that climate change actually affects you and you understand how it affects you I would recommend this training but also for those who don't understand what is climate change? Is this something in the air that you know is affecting me and I don't know what it is? I would recommend it to everybody. My name is Victor Mugo I am the country coordinator for the climate smart agriculture youth network. The first thing that I really liked about this learning strategy was the recognition that it is meant for especially young people that it was quite great for me to be there as a young person really helping to co-create solutions with young people in the room. I really liked the fact that there were the highest people in the land, PSAs, CSAs, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Education and the likes. There are common people there are persons living with disability who are there so I really liked that co-creation of solutions together with everyone in the room. It's good to have the people who this policy is meant for and also helping to create that policy and so I really liked that about this strategy formulation process. Whether we like it or not we are being affected by climate change and it has moved from an abstract topic to something that we can see on our everyday basis. At the moment I can see about 1.4 million people who are facing hanka and drought. Then I can also see things such as the rising of the lakes in the Great Drift Valley. Now we see also the locust crisis and so I think it is quite vital for all of us to know what we are facing and I think information is really power especially for young people it's not just information it's insight in how they can be able to undertake activities and programs that can be able to help them to cope fast to the changing climate but also to see how we can hold there are very many numerous opportunities within the agricultural space in which I think young people can be able to tap in. I think we can use the youth demographic as a good conduit for which we can spark limit action in Kenya. I think the first stage I was getting this strategy in place but the other greater thing that we need to do is to make sure that it is implemented and it comes into into fusion in our spaces. My name is Victor Buire. I work at the media accounts of Kenya the premier national institution that regulates the standards and sets standards for journalists and obviously approves courses for any specialized training for journalists. Media accounts and partners had specific deliverables to be specific there were four though we added two or three by way of the project itself giving results that were not initially intended so one was we do we set up a technical committee to look at the gaps in the training of curriculum in the region so we set up a committee that did a gap analysis so the gap analysis was done in Kenya Ethiopia and Uganda to establish what is existing in terms of climate change reporting and we did establish nearly 16 gaps in terms of training we felt there was no any journalism college actually in the region that was offering effectively on climate change that's how our training and especially our relationship with FWA the government of Kenya through treasury and the current nap preparedness training and curriculum came in we developed the curriculum itself because part of the output was to develop a curriculum after doing all these things so we have a curriculum through a competitive process picked 12 people who have been trained first in training or any other person who wants to train on climate change we already have a group of people who have been trained then we had a training of 60 journalists so we trained 60 journalists from 12 counties these are counties that were under reviewed by the Ministry of Forestry and Environment that seem to be vulnerable in terms of climate change the nap readiness program is a huge program what we are doing is a component of a huge project and the UN family and part of it is being done by the Kenya private sector the other bit is being done by the Kenya school of government so media council was picked on the part that relates the training of journalists public communication officers on the issue of creation of awareness through media by creating a pool of journalists and communication officers drawn from government public institutions and journalists from the media to help in changing the behavior because we are looking at the knowledge attitude and practice change among people and media is a key component in terms of setting the agenda and perception about because some of the issues we are talking about in climate change are largely cultural traditional things that people have refused to move and if we don't attack their behavior then the patterns through behavior change using media especially community media radios to help people change perspectives change the new way of looking things then we are failing so the bit media council and the four partners I have mentioned is largely on public awareness especially targeting media and public communication but again like I mentioned to ensure sustainability we are working with the universities and colleges that teach journalism that are done by journalists but there are also now aspects that are done by experts from the university from the ministry from the NGOs to bring in now to give the journalists the content when you are writing a story about climate change for example people invading wetlands what international convention do you indicate to show that there was a human rights violation here now we are talking about the issue of solution based journalism and for journalists to do solution based on context journalism it depends on the understanding of what they are doing