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contribute to a population’s resilience. Measuring resilience also contributes to measuringpeople’s ability to respond to and accommodate adverse events.3 IsioloCountyislocatedinuppereasternKenyacoveringanareaof25,336.1km2. Most of the county is a flat low lying plain. Isiolo is regarded as one of the arid counties and is hot anddry formost of theyearwith two rainy seasons; short rains (October and November) and long rains (March–May) with average rainfall of 580 mm. The main ethnic groups found in the county are Borana, Turkana, Samburu, Somali andMeru. Themain economic activities practiced in the county include pastoralism, subsistence agriculture, small-scale trade, and limited harvesting ofGumArabica resin.Over the years, its communities have continued to feel the increasing impacts of climatevariabilitydue to the increasing frequency of drought episodes and their negative impacts.4 These impacts include: longer trekking distances for women and girls, over dependence on humanitarian aid, infrastructuredestructionduetoflashflooding,changinglivelihoodsascommunities are unable to recover from the increasing frequency of drought episodes amongst others. The county was chosen for the TAMD feasibility testing, as it was the first county to receive climate financing from theDepartment for International Devel- opment (DFID) for the establishment of a CountyAdaptation Fund (CAF).5 The objectiveof theCAFis tofinancepublicgood investments for improved resilience toclimatechangethroughtheCountygovernmentandsixwardadaptationplanning committees (CAPCs andWAPCs respectively) through the Adaptation Consor- tium.6The sixwards areKinna,Garbatulla, Sericho,Oldonyiro,Merti andChari. Resilience in Isiolo, according to the resident communities is equated to long termdevelopmentoutcomes suchas sustainable livelihoodsdue tobetter livestock production which leads to increased incomes, improved human health, access to natural resources/pasture, food security and access to education. Thus themainquestionwaswhether investing climatefinance in public invest- ment goodswas going to elicit resiliencemeasures as described by the communi- ties.For this theTAMDframeworkdevelopedbyBrooksandothers7waschosenas the tool that would be used to test whether resilience measures defined by the 3Bene, C. 2013. Towards a Quantifiable Measure of Resilience. Brighton, UK: Institute of DevelopmentStudies. 4Republic of Kenya (2013). Isiolo County: First County integrated development plan (2013–2017).Kenya,Nairobi:Government of theRepublic ofKenya. 5This fund is managed under the DFID’s Strengthening Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change inKenya (STARCK+)with funds from the InternationalClimateFund. 6Adaptation Consortium (2014). Adaptation consortium bulletin (online newsletter). Retrieved fromhttp://adaconsortium.org/images/publications/Briefing-Paper.pdf 7Brooks, N., Anderson, S., Burton, I., Fisher, S., Rai, N., & Tellam, I. (2013). An operational framework for tracking adaptation andmeasuring development. Climate changeworking paper no.5.London,UK:International InstituteforEnvironmentalDevelopment(IIED).Retrievedfrom http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/10038IIED.pdf 272 I.Karani andN.Kariuki