1. Data Component Scoping Meeting
Kenya
Data Component Scoping Meeting
GFOI Plenary, Bogotá, Thursday 15th March 2018
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2. Status of your NFMS and MRV procedures
The Ministry of Environment and Forestry is the national UNFCCC focal point responsible for international reporting.
Kenya submitted the first national communication to UNFCCC in and the second national communication in The third national communication is underway.
The REDD readiness proposal was finalized in 2012.The NFMS roadmap was finalized in 2016.The FRL and the strategy are under development.
As part of enhancing the process of reporting, Kenya is developing a national System for Land-based Emissions Estimation (SLEEK), which aims at providing time series information on emissions associated with land use activities in Kenya.
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3. What are the components of SLEEK?
Daily weather data and scenarios from the Kenya Meteorological Service
Crop, forest and plant growth curves and information about management regimes
Land Cover maps showing change over time
Assessments of the level of carbon stored in soils and models for tracking change over time
Assessments and models of the drivers of Land Use Change

4. Benefits of SLEEK to Kenya
Climate change reporting
Predict future GHG emissions and removals
Support implementation of national policies and decision making
It is a complete system:
Not just technical (models and data )
Includes administrative processes, institutional arrangements, reporting processes, analysis and inputs to policy

5. Key Capacity Building Partners
Government of Australia – Financial and Technical support to SLEEK program
Technical partnerships with GFOI, Australia’s CSIRO, NASA, Australian National University & Wageningen University
Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) – Support to the Forest Preservation Program
UN-REDD – Specific capacity building efforts under FAO (NFMS roadmap, mapping of stakeholders and datasets )
Government of Finland - Support to design NFI
UK Overseas Development Aid – Forest 2020

6. Tools for Land cover mapping
Landsat (34 Wall-wall) satellite images for the period processed by USGS
High resolution image data (Google Earth) used for interpretation of land cover,
Ancillary datasets included ; Agro-ecological zones, Administrative boundaries, Forest boundaries, plantation forests. These were availed from the mapping institutions in Kenya such as DRSRS, RCMRD and KFS, Ministry of Agriculture, Universities, SOK and international bodies such as CSIRO.
Mapping
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7. Forest Inventory data
Kenya has not done any NFI. An NFI was piloted under the ICFRA project of Finland.
There are a variety for data sets on forest stocks and biomass from a variety of projects but such data is not consistent
Carbon allocations were based on Australian experience but using local data and management activities to generate Emission factors
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8. Products
Spatially explicit wall-wall pixel based land cover maps from – 2014 based on satellite datasets (SLEEK).
Classification mosaics
Land cover mapping and process manuals
Land cover change products
Biomass values
Emission factors based on attribution data (not complete)
Full Lands Integration Tool
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9. Country-specific flowchart
Acquisition
Landsat images from USGS
Pre-Processing
Landsat L1
Mosaicking to make wall-wall
Delivery and Analysis
Manual delivery
Land cover
National land cover categories
Supervised classification
Ground truthing
CPN
GIS software
Land use change
Use of Auxillary data
Attribution
Ground data
NFI
allocations
model parameters
Attribution
Integration
FLINT
Reporting and Verification
FRA
UNFCCC reporting
CRF Tables
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10. Institutions involved
Ministry of Environment and Forestry – Coordination
Climate Change Department – Support and advise
National Environmental Management Authority - Support and advise
DRSRS,RCMRD, Universities , SOK– mapping
KFS, KEFRI, Universities - Biomass / Carbon emission factors
KALRO, Universities - Soil and Agriculture
KMD –Climate
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11. Way Forward
Continuous improvement of the system - data, maps, system operationalization, reporting tool, sensitivity tests / accuracy assessment, REDD Compass
Capacity building - manipulation and running of the FlinT to get required products, climate change reporting, mapping time series changes
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