Kenya:

Full Steam Ahead: the Role of Kenya’s Civil Society in a Geothermal Success Story (Climate Investment Funds)

Kenya’s current geothermal capacity is 241 MW, but the government hopes to increase capacity to 5,530 MW by 2030 – close to a 21-fold increase in the country’s geothermal output.

To help replicate this success in the future, project participants from the CIF, AfDB, civil society, and the Geothermal Development Company (GDC) (the public body overseeing its implementation) came together to share lessons learned. The meeting took the form of a panel discussion at the CSO forum side event at the AfDB annual meeting in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire.

The session provided five key lessons:

1. Stakeholder engagement requires a multilevel effort
2. Civil society must be engaged from the start of the process
3. CSOs provide valuable oversight
4. Effective knowledge management can help proliferate the use of best practices
5. Country context must be taken into account

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