Provision of climate change knowledge and information hub

The Danish Refugee Council is seeking a consultancy to develop an online climate change information hub for the Karamoja region, which borders Kenya and Uganda. This initiative aims to enhance climate adaptation and improve early warning systems in response to climate risks impacting Kenya's economy and sustainable development. The project emphasizes the use of digital technologies for effective information sharing.
Kenya

Provision of climate change knowledge and information hub

Organization
• Danish Refugee Council

Posted 16 Feb 2026 Closing date 27 Feb 2026
• Who is the Danish Refugee Council?

Founded in 1956, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a leading international NGO and one of the few with a specific expertise in forced displacement. Active in 40 countries with 9,000 employees and supported by 7,500 volunteers, DRC protects, advocates, and builds sustainable futures for refugees and other displacement affected people and communities. DRC works during displacement at all stages: In the acute crisis, in displacement, when settling and integrating in a new place, or upon return. DRC provides protection and life-saving humanitarian assistance; supports displaced persons in becoming self-reliant and included into hosting societies; and works with civil society and responsible authorities to promote protection of rights and peaceful coexistence.

DRC has been operational in Kenya since 2005 and is one of the United Nations Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) largest Implementing Partners in the refugee response. DRC is present in Garissa (Dadaab & Garissa), North Rift (Kakuma, Kalobeyei & Lodwar), Karamoja cluster-Cross border region connecting Kenya and Uganda, Nairobi and Mandera counties
• Purpose of the consultancy

The Danish Refugee Council based in Kenyaseeks proposals from a consultancy firm to develop an online climate change information and knowledge platform for Karamoja region (Bordering areas of Kenya-Uganda) exploring opportunities to utilize digital technologies in the information sharing on better climate adaptation to promote cascading of climate information as a way of synergizing early warning system (EWS) sensitization.
• Background

Climate risks pose serious threats to Kenya’s sustainable development goals. With the largest economy in East Africa and a population of 54 million, Kenya serves as the region’s financial, trade, and communications hub. The country’s economy is largely dependent on rainfed agriculture and tourism, each susceptible to climate variability and change and extreme weather events. Kenya’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) notes that successive climate change impacts result in socio-economic losses estimated at 3-4 per cent of Gross Domestic Product annually and impede development efforts. Even though Kenya contributes less than 0.1 per cent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually, it has policies and measures to pursue a low-carbon and resilient development pathway to realize its Vision 2030 to transform Kenya into a newly industrializing, middle-income country.

Kenya is a leader in addressing climate change and was one of the first countries in Africa to enact a comprehensive law and policy to guide national and subnational climate action. The Climate Change Act and the National Climate Change Policy Framework provide guidance for low-carbon and climate-resilient development. Kenya’s priorities as articulated through these, and other, instruments include adaptation, afforestation and reforestation, climate-smart agriculture, geothermal and clean energy development, energy efficiency, and drought management. These priorities are operationalized through a number of sector-specific policies and strategies.

Northern Kenya is an arid region inhabited by nomadic pastoralists and characterized by a fragile ecosystem – ravaged by the effects of climate change and susceptible to insecurity due to regional ethnic and political inter-play within the Kenya-Uganda-Sudan, Ethiopia-Somalia borderlands. The region is also drought-prone, a situation that has depleted livestock, water and pasture. These conditions create an increased need for mobility and better climate adaptation in this field for the survival of pastoralist livelihoods. Pasture and water scarcity continue to be a key driving force for most intercommunal conflicts – more so along the often insecure and porous border regions. DRC experience in the region suggests that the most effective way of providing support to the pastoralists in the prevailing situation is through the promotion of peaceful co-existence among and within the communities and protecting the communities’ assets, saving lives, building community resilience, addressing vulnerabilities and create awareness on better climate adaptations. Thus, DRC through the
• Karamoja Strong(KSP*

) project is responding to the affected communities by spearheading conflict prevention initiatives through a variety of peace and conflict mitigation initiatives and promotion of sustainable livelihoods for women and youth, community-based natural resource management and better climate adaptation for increased productivity in the boarder areas of Kenya and Uganda

DRC’s program is designed to serve as a bridge between humani