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"content": " Order, Senators! Before we proceed to the next Order, let me make a communication. The World Future Council (WFC) with the support of the Parliament of Kenya and particularly the Senate Standing Committee on Land and Natural Resources, the FAO regional office in Africa, the Greenbelt Movement and the Global Legislators Organisation; Global International, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, has organized for the third inter-parliamentary regional hearings on exemplary forest policies in Africa scheduled to take place in Nairobi today. The WFC is a foundation based in Hamburg, Germany, which identifies and promotes solutions for the challenges of our time. Their mission is to inform policy makers and opinion leaders about the challenges facing future generations, to provide practical policy solutions and to facilitate dialogue on how to implement the same. In 2012, the WFC conducted an inter-parliamentary hearing in Kigali, Rwanda, with the support of the Rwanda Ministry of Natural Resources, the Rwanda Natural Resources Authority, the Rwanda Environment Management Authority, the United Nations Forum on forests, the FAO and Globe International. At the hearing, parliamentarians, policy makers and experts from Burundi, Cameroun, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia made a commitment to take back to their countries these ideas, policies and successful experiences in order to gain support for the implementation as declared in the Kigali Declaration. At the WFC meeting, 2013, inter-parliamentary hearing on forests for people in Dar es Salaam, 35 legislators, policy makers and experts from Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe committed to engage themselves for exemplary forest policy. The hearing was opened by Tanzania’s Vice- President His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Gharib Bilal and our delegation from Kenya was led by Sen. Isaac Melly, Sen. Liza Chelule and Sen. Naisula Lesuuda. The 2013 inter-parliamentary hearing focused on regional and national laws that deliver significant improvements to forests and to people who depend on them. The 2014 inter-parliamentary hearing which is scheduled to be held in Nairobi between 30th September, 2014, that is today, and the 3rd of October, 2014, the WFC has invited approximately 50 parliamentarians and government representatives from Central and the East African Region. The objectives of the hearing for the Nairobi meeting include the following:- (i) to offer parliamentarians first hand information and to allow for a mutual exchange of interesting initiatives which have been proved effective in their countries and could be replicated elsewhere; (ii) to provide a platform for decision-makers and practitioners from Central and East African countries to exchange experiences and solutions on sustainable forest management, wood fuels and forest governance; The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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