{"id":1181314,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1181314/?format=json","text_counter":354,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"NOW THEREFORE the Senate urges the Ministries of Agriculture and Livestock Development; Water, Sanitation, and Irrigation; Education, and the Ministry of East African Community (EAC), the ASALs and Regional Development through the National Drought Management Authority, to come up with a policy framework to address the perennial drought in the County and to come up with policy programs addressing the current needs of the County to include: - i. a roll out of a Rapid Response Initiative (RRI) programme of providing foodstuffs to the affected residents of the County to address immediate critical needs; ii. an introduction of feeding programme in schools across the County; iii. the drilling of water boreholes; and iv. an institution of a livestock off-take programme to buy weak livestock."}