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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. One gap that we may want to look at is about recovery once drought has hit communities. So, without belabouring the point since yesterday a lot of discussion was made on this, for us to enhance this Motion we should include a recovery of animals and rangelands. Also, as we operationalize this Act, let us make it more holistic so that the vicious cycle is broken based on the recovery strategies both in terms of not just leaving it at response but ensuring that the communities recover. I know whenever there are issues around disasters of that nature, communities are usually helped to recover from any crisis that affects their livelihoods. In different sectors including the coffee sector, the farmers are helped to recover and the Government has compensated farmers in many instances. However, for the livestock sector, once people are given some relief food during the response period, compensation is forgotten. That is why the vicious cycle continues because nobody is looking at after the recovery but just during. Therefore, the gap that we have seen coming from that sector is that the mitigation strategies are wanting. The response strategies are also very wasteful because not the right strategies are employed while others are missing all together. So, as we compel the relevant Ministry and authorities to look at recovery of livestock for people that have been affected by drought, we can try and break the vicious cycle. By the time drought comes, the communities have not recovered from the devastating effects of the drought of the other cycle and that is the missing gap. This is something that we are going to be looking at very closely in this House in terms of before, during and after drought related and other climate change induced crisis in our country. How the resources that are allocated for the response are used is also a big question. So, for me, it is important to include the recovery of livestock and some sort of compensation in this Motion. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in terms of mitigation, we need to look at innovative ways of dealing with this. We have done the same things over and over again and I am worried that we will never achieve good results if we keep doing the same things. What are some of the innovative ways in which these authorities are looking at the question of drought related mitigation being raised in our country including livestock insurances? That perhaps would help communities to safeguard their livelihoods and mitigate against losses pretty much as what is going on in other sectors. I would, therefore, urge us not to ask the same things but to have innovative strategies both in terms of mitigative measures, responses and terms of recovery measures as well. Therefore, let us see new ways of helping pastoralists, perhaps livestock insurance, compensation and livestock markets that can off-take animals just before they are all swept away by either drought or floods. I do not want to belabor the point too much, but we need to compel and call upon the Authority to do something and operationalise the Act. As we call upon the authorities to do something and operationalize The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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