East African Business Week

ARUSHA, TANZANIA-The five partner states of the East African Community have developed a twenty-year (2011-2031) climate change master plan whose implementation is estimated to cost a total of $2,141,860,561.15.
According to the plan, seen by East African Business Week, the required amount by the EAC secretariat in the short term is $34,220,137.65 and this is to cover studies, demonstrations and pilots of best case projects, provide seed money for start-up priority trans-boundary projects among others.
"However to initiate and accelerate the implementation of crucial projects and identified proposals, the secretariat will need an approximate budget of $2.1b in the medium term, this amount is additional to the partner states budget allocation for climate proofing and related issues,"
The master plan was released last week at a five day first sectoral council on environment and natural resources held at Naura Springs in Arusha, Tanzania. It reveals that the partner states have identified the most vulnerable areas to climate change.
These include agriculture covering crops, livestock and fisheries and food security, water and energy security, eco-systems and biodiversity, infrastructure covering buildings, roads, railways, water and air ways.
Others are human health, sanitation and settlements, trade and industry, education, science and technology.