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"speaker_name": "Mandera South, UDM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Abdul Haro",
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"content": "community. Satellite technology in climate action is in its preliminary stages in Africa, but there are processes that we can leverage on to realise climate monitoring and prompt climate change action. The African continent has reached the potential of using satellite technology in climate monitoring. In fact, 12 countries including Egypt, South Africa, Algeria, Nigeria, Morocco, Ghana, Sudan, Ethiopia, Angola, Kenya, Rwanda and Mauritius have, at least, one satellite that is being used for climate monitoring. Early last year, Kenya launched the Taifa-1 Satellite that can provide critical multispectral imagery of Kenya needed for applications in agriculture, security, land use cover, forestry resources and disaster management to help combat these conditions. In this country, the National Drought Management Authority operates Drought Information Systems, which provide information on drought and other weather-related events, but the systems we use for collecting data are dependent on mobility, that is, people moving from one area to another on vehicles which lack accuracy and timeliness. We need to improve this capacity as a country. Recently, I visited Luigi Broglio Space Centre; a space centre run by the Italian Government and has also been in partnership with Kenya since 1966. That Centre collects a lot of data on the environment and climate, but unfortunately, most of that data benefits Italy and other European nations, despite the data being generated in this country because of lack of policy to use this kind of data for its benefit. We need to use all such tools and available technologies, including satellite imagery, remote sensing, and ground-based monitoring stations to collect data on rainfall, temperature, soil moisture and other indicators. The information gathered can be analysed and disseminated to relevant stakeholders, including farmers, pastoralists, government agencies, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) and communities. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move this Motion and ask Hon. Malulu Injendi to second."
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