{"id":445003,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/445003/?format=json","text_counter":317,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Ganya","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":18,"legal_name":"Francis Chachu Ganya","slug":"francis-ganya"},"content":"Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, just to finish, the Report of the Presidential Task Force on Parastatal Reforms presented to the President on October 2013 recognised the NDMA as a strategic corporation. The NDMA’s mandate was stated in this Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources as follows: “---on its own or in a situation with other authorities or persons establish a mechanism to ensure that drought does not become famine and the impacts of climate change are sufficiently mitigated.”"}