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    "id": 1232961,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1232961/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Soipan Tuya",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 926,
        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
        "slug": "roselinda-soipan-tuya"
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    "content": "2. The KMD is in the process of implementing and operationalising impact- based forecasting which will serve to support evidence-based decision making for extreme weather events such as heatwaves both in advisory form as well as in updates and forecasts. Together with other sectors including water, energy, health and disaster risk reduction, the KMD is developing thresholds of weather and climate variables trigger response and action. 3. The Ministry is currently developing the National Climate Change Action Plan which includes adaptation and mitigation strategies that respond to various impacts with regard to heat increases. 4. Partnership that the Metrological Department is involved with Resurgence, a development partner on a project called the Daraja where there is regular issuance of temperature forecasts including warnings for informal settlements. An example is one that has been developed in Kibra and Mathare based on collaborative thresholds. On collaborations, these thresholds are disseminated via text messages to communities and also radios such as Moja FM. This focus emanates from the fact that these informal settlements are largely impacted disproportionately by extreme heat conditions. 5. The Ministry is in the process of modernising the KMD’s infrastructure so that the department will be in a position to monitor the weather events better. This improved monitoring network will be the basis for development of local scale threshold to detect extreme heat episodes for early warning. At the opportune time, we shall be reaching out through the relevant Committee of this House for the support of the House to help modernise and fully equip our Metrological Department by turning it into a Semi-Autonomous Government Agency that can stand on its feet to respond to the need for scientific based approaches to early warning systems for us to alleviate the effects of heatwaves and other such impacts of climate change. That is one of the biggest needs within the KMD that I know will specifically be followed through the House of Parliament. In terms of recommendations, …"
}