MANDERA COUNTY
Mandera County is one of the 47 counties in Kenya, located in the North Eastern part of Kenya and borders Ethiopia to the North, Somalia Republic to the East and Wajir County to the South. It is about 1,100km from the capital city of Nairobi by road. The county has an approximate population of 1,025,756 and covers an area of 25,991.5 km2. The County Administratively is subdivided into six Sub Counties namely: Mandera West, Mandera South, Banisa, Mandera North, Mandera East and Lafey and further to 30 administrative wards.
Sub-County | Zone | Suitable Enterprises |
Mandera East | LM (IV- VI) | Livestock keeping, irrigated agriculture along River Daua and drought tolerant crops |
Mandera North | LM (IV- VI) | Livestock keeping, irrigated agriculture along River Daua and drought tolerant crops |
Mandera West | LM (IV- VI) | Livestock keeping and drought tolerant crops |
Mandera south | LM (IV-VI) | Livestock keeping and drought tolerant crops |
Banisa | LM (IV- VI) | Livestock keeping, irrigated agriculture along River Daua and drought tolerant crops |
Lafey | LM (V- VI) | Livestock keeping, irrigated agriculture along River Daua and drought tolerant crops |
Justification for project
Due to the 2011 drought Mandera and other ASAL counties experienced severe contraction of its economy and loss of its livelihoods which is majorly dependent on livestock.IGAD nations then came up with an initiative to stem effects of drought in future. Mandera county was chosen as a beneficiary county because of its:
- Vulnerability to Recurrent droughts;
- Cross border/Trans-boundary Resource based Conflict prone area;
- Trans-boundary livestock trade routes
Regional disease investigation and diagnostic center
Livestock is the main livelihood for 90% of the county populace. This resource is mostly hampered by disease outbreaks. The best strategy for disease management is prevention. To realize this the project and county prioritized a regional veterinary laboratory to serve the county and neighboring regions in Southern Ethiopia and neighboring Somalia regions. The regionality was informed by the fluid situation of disease spread in the triangle. The aim is to reduce the turnaround time for processing of samples as the nearest laboratory is 800km in Garissa thus enabling speedy prevention thus securing the pastoral livelihood.
The laboratory will be located in Garbakole area near Mandera town.
Component | Sub-project name | Location/ name & site physical address | Status (stages) | Remarks |
NRM | Sake water pan construction | Sake sub location, Gither location,dandu division, Mandera west sub county
Gither ward,mandera west constituency Latitude -3®38’24.00â€N, Longitude 39®47’.200.00â€E 1.2km2 860M asl |
Community mobilization and site identification done
CMDRR process undertaken Screening exercise undertaken Awaiting EIA |
Estimated target population is 1460 Households (7300peopleTarget livestock population estimates is ; Cattle- 4000 heads, Goats- 4,000, Sheep- 6,000 and donkey-400 The investment will reduce trekking distance from 10 km one-way from a water pan to 6 km and water duration from4 months to 6 months |
NRM | Tree planting at Bulla Haji primary school | Â Neboi ward,khalalio division,mandera east
3®58’42.94â€N and 41®43’49.23’’E 10.8KM2 |
Screening done
200 seedlings done Water tank installed Piping done Fencing done |
Project complete and handed over to SMC |
NRM | Bush clearing | Neboi ward,khalalio division,mandera
Bulla Haji county farm 3®59’5.38’’N and 41®43’38.80â€E 2,854 House holds Population(11,110Males,9470 females) |
Screening done
Bush management done Awaiting seeds |
For seed bulking and demonstration for farmer groups |
NRM | Gully control | Sake sublocation,Gither location,dandu division, Mandera west sub county
Gither ward,mandera west constituency Latitude -3®38’24.00â€N, Longitude 39®47’.200.00â€E 1.2km2 860M asl |
Screening done
BQ done |
Gabions yet to be constructed |
LS | Regional livestock disease investigation and diagnostic centre-Garbakole,Mandera | Garbakole,Mandera
3®56’25.73â€N and 41®50’39.26â€E |
Screening done
Feasibility report Designs done BQ done Awaiting EIA |
The investment will enhance the livestock disease diagnostic capacity of the County and neighboring country(southern Ethiopia, Somalia)
The investment will enable prompt response to livestock disease outbreaks through early detections of diseases(Reduce turn around time) The investment will build laboratory diagnostic capacity of the technical staff |
PRM | CMDRR | Takaba
Gagab Tarama |
3 community action plan |
Livestock Corridor | Investment and Location | Â | Investments events Status | |||||
Capacity | CMDRR | Feasibility Study | Screening | Safeguard studies | Remarks | |||
 | Component One: Natural Resources Management | |||||||
Ethiopia-Banisa-Ta | Sake water pan
·        Latitude -3®38’24.00â€N, Longitude 39®47’.200.00â€E |
25,000M3 | √√ | √√ | √√ |  | Awaiting EIA | |
Sake- Gully control
·        Latitude -3®38’24.00â€N, Longitude 39®47’.200.00â€E |
 | √√ | √√ | Awaiting commencement | ||||
Bulla haji- Bush Clearing
|
10 ha | √√ | √√ | Done | ||||
 | Component Two: Market Access and Trade | |||||||
Border post | Â | Â | Â | Â | ||||
 | Component Three: Livelihood Support | |||||||
Regional disease investigation and diagnostic center-Garbakole
·        3®56’25.73â€N and 41®50’39.26â€E |
 |  |  |  |  | Awaiting EIA | ||
 | Component Four: Pastoral Risk Management | |||||||
CMDRR(Gagab,Tarama,Takaba) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
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 | Component Five: PMIS | |||||||
Renovation of project office | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Capital Investment Status
Key
√√ : | Complete | √x : | In progress | xx: | Not Carried Out |
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