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    "content": "increase as communities compete for the meager and limited gracing and water resources. As a result, insecurity will become a major problem and the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security will have a major role to play in drought management. The Ministry of Livestock Development - and livestock being the major source of livelihood in ASALs which are drought prone - has a major role to play in terms of animal health interventions, including livestock development programmes. The Ministry of Medical Services and the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation have major activities to undertake because health-related problems are likely to occur, especially due to the limited amount of water that is available to those communities. On the other hand, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and civil society organizations will also intervene on their own, with minimal co-ordination from the State. That is why it is very important to have a Drought Management Authority which will co-ordinate all those Government Ministries, NGOs, donor communities and other stakeholders in a holistic way, so that drought is managed and the resources that are available for drought management are used in a useful way that will enable us to manage that disaster. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Speaker, there are many objectives for establishing the Drought Management Authority. It will be responsible for the management of the drought early warning systems in the whole Republic. Secondly, it will be responsible for contingency planning that will deal with drought coping mechanisms, risk reduction and building communities’ capacities to long-term drought resilience. Thirdly, the Authority will be responsible for the disbursement of contingency funds to drought prone affected districts in the best possible effective and efficient manner. It will be responsible for the human resource to facilitate the implementation and management of drought mitigation programmes at national and local levels. It is also important for that Authority to document, publish and disseminate all relevant drought management data and information to all stakeholders in and around the country. In addition to all that, the Drought Management Authority will support capacity building initiatives of drought management among the relevant stakeholders in the nation. Drought management is a very expensive major initiative. As a result, the Authority will undertake fundraising activities to finance drought management programmes in the country. Finally, it will be very important for the Authority to operate a functional and effective monitoring system for drought management interventions in the whole country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the activities of that Authority will have a livelihood perspective. It will not be based on just saving lives. It will respond to drought emergencies all over the country. It will be equipped with a fully-fledged drought early warning system with a fully-fledged institutional arrangement and capacity. It will be backed up with very good contingency plan which will have been adopted from different parts of this country. The Authority will have activities which will be based on the drought management cycle. When drought occurs, it is slow on its onset. It happens within one or two years. We have early signs of drought. For instance, when the rains have failed, that is the stage where we need to be alert. After the second or the third rainy season fails, we get to an alarm stage. We know that things are not going well. The animals start deteriorating in terms of their health, water pumps and other water resources start to dry up and we are alarmed that we are likely to experience drought. Then, the situation becomes an emergency. After that, a recovery period is experienced once there are rains. Based on that, different types of interventions are required at each stage of the drought cycle. For instance, the Drought Management Authority at the earlier stage will invest in early"
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