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"speaker_name": "Hon. Soipan Tuya",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry",
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"content": "climate resilient development pathway in the long-term. The Ministry, through the support of development partners, including the Green Climate Fund, GCF and FLOCA, among others, facilitated the establishment and capacity building of climate change units across the counties and state departments in the country in line with the Climate Change Act of 2016. The Ministry has also established climate change environment governance structures at the county level. These are county climate change committees under the respective County Climate Change Acts and County Environmental Committees under the Environmental Management and Coordination Act. To sum up my response to the first question, we have a law that came into effect in 2016, but little has gone into actualisation or implementation, and that has been the focus of the Ministry in the past few months. The second question focuses on what expertise we have engaged, as well as what criteria we have applied in developing the national climate change initiatives and tailoring them to the specific needs of each county. We are mandated to coordinate environmental and climate actions within the country and have developed several national climate change initiatives, including policies, plans and programmes as required by law. We have also come up with an elaborate and inclusive process for the drafting and validation of national initiatives. I will state again that for the Ministry and other key agencies at the national level and the county governments, we are linked at the hip when it comes to climate action implementation. Therefore, the focus, as the question has been tailored to make sure that all the initiatives, the national climate change action plans and the strategies are very inclusive at their development stage. Allow me just to give us a snapshot of the process that we undertook with the development of the National Climate Change Action Plan of 2023 to 2027. Again, to demonstrate the expertise we engaged and the criteria applied to ensure that these policies and strategies are tailored to meet the specific needs of counties. In the development of the National Climate Change Action Plan, we started with a nomination process of a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional team. This multi- disciplinary and multi-institutional approach was used to enable adequate scope and depth of input across all sectors. We undertook a mapping of the technical skills and experiences required to identify experts from line ministries, departments and agencies, counties, private sector and civil society, and marginalised groups. We work very closely with the Council of Governors (CoG) in this regard. The development of the Terms of References (ToRs) for the steering committee to develop, in terms of technical working groups, to collect, analyze and synthesize relevant data and information and lead consultants to lead the various thematic teams and develop the action plan. We embarked on the nomination of a steering committee, members and technical experts from the technical working groups by ministries, departments, CoGs, the private sector and all those players. Several working sessions of each technical working group were held to come up with a zero draft of the plan. We engaged in a very robust stakeholder engagement at various levels, at the county technical teams, national experts, special interest groups, a The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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