Environmental Health

Pastoral communities rely heavily on their natural environment for survival, including access to water, grazing lands, and clean air. However, they face significant challenges related to environmental health, such as waterborne diseases, poor sanitation, and the impacts of climate change. This strategy aims to address these challenges by improving environmental health systems, ensuring sustainable resource use, and fostering resilience to environmental risks. It has as vision to create healthier environments for pastoral communities, fostering sustainable livelihoods and reducing vulnerability to environmental health hazards,all of these with the Objectives of Improved access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), Mitigate health risks caused by environmental degradation and climate change, Promote sustainable management of natural resources, enhancing community resilience to environmental challenges through education and capacity building and Strengthening institutional support for environmental health interventions in pastoral areas .All these have Strategic Areas of focus notably;