National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), domesticated the Environment Performance Index (EPI), a global tool, which measures performance in our State of Environment (SOE) and is the first step towards preparing Environmental Action Plans (EAP). The EPI is now part of the Report that the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Forestry is obliged under EMCA CAP 387 to present to the National Assembly each year, applicable to both national and county level. The EPI ranks and compares County by County performance for select indicators, clearly illustrating where additional support, resource allocation and investment is needed. Maintained by Yale and Columbia University for the past 20 years, the Global EPI has ranked Kenya a “poor performer”, currently at 130 out of 180 nations. This County brief, therefore, calls upon high level, County policy-oriented readership to work toward improve their grass root situation.
