Lake Victoria Basin clean-up put on hold as coronavirus disrupts project Thursday May 13 2021 Parents and students ride a boat after flooding caused an overflow of Lake Victoria in Kisumu, western Kenya. PHOTO | AFP Advertisement People living within the Lake Victoria catchment area have to wait a little longer before enjoying a better environment in the face of increasing rainfall variability and rising temperatures. A project funded by the Adaption Fund to adopt and implement nature-based solutions to build resilience to climate change has been extended to 2022 following implementation challenges. “Covid-19 impacted the project execution and was one of the reasons the extension was requested,” said Adaption Fund manager Mikko Ollikainen in an e-mail to