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    "content": "control seasons, we can preempt it using technology since this is something that we can use in terms of what can be done by the Meteorological Department. They can forecast and inform us in advance exactly what sort of weather we should expect and come up with the necessary plans, strategies and policies. This is exactly what this Bill seeks to establish comprehensively. In terms of its objective, the Bill aims to ensure that decision making and implementation plans are done in advance. It is important that this Council that has been put in place and which will be chaired by the President plans and gives information in advance. The Bill also seeks to mainstream and reinforce climate change and disaster risk reduction into strategies and actions of public and private entities. I know that many initiatives have been put for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), but over time, we found that they have been very disjointed. Recently I attended a workshop on DRR in Uganda that brought various people across the globe and specifically from Africa. The main thing was that there is no education on how to reduce the risk. There was also the issue of how people can propel and put finances in the right places. Another issue was on how people can respond to those disasters in order to reduce their effects as much as possible. Madam Temporary Speaker, another issue that came out in that workshop was the issue of inter-generational gender equality. Women play a key role in terms of DRR, and I gave the example of the late Prof. Wangari Maathai who planted trees in order to ensure that we had a solid ground and hence less erosion. That affects climate and it will determine whether we will have rains or dry spells. The main issue was not only focusing on one aspect of the lens in terms of having the general approach. The strategy that I advocated for was to have very clear gender mainstreaming. This is because women understand the environment more than anybody else since they are the ones who fetch water from rivers and collect firewood. Therefore, when it comes to mitigating measures and putting actions into place, they need to be put into focus. Again, this process has to be from one generation to the other. The emphasis in this Bill that the inter-generational gender equality aspect will be taken into consideration will be very critical. That way, from one generation to another, the key tenets of what it means to ensure that we do not suffer as a result of climatic change are put into place. Madam Temporary Speaker, another important aspect of the Bill is ensuring that there will be public participation in climate change responses through awareness creation. At the end of the day, communities will discuss. Most communities have had a historic and age old ways of coping with climatic change. Some of them include relocation to safer grounds at the time of danger. Carrying out public participation and education, therefore, becomes critical. The Bill also advocates for a lot of research to go into climate change and responses to disaster so that at the end of the day, there is a sense of knowledgeability that has been passed on, for example, the key indicators of climate change and how to plan for them in advance in order not to be caught in a difficult situation. Another aspect is that of mainstreaming the principle of sustainable development. One of the things that makes climate change one of the key topics is the destruction that it 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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