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    "id": 818553,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/818553/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maara, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kareke Mbiuki",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Japhet M. Kareke Mbiuki",
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    "content": "adopted by the House, the committee will present various amendments so that we can tighten the loose ends. On the strategic forest management, the committee recommends that Kenyans should take advantage and claim carbon credit to help in efforts at forest and general ecosystem conservation. The Ministry of Environment and Forestry should create awareness on carbon credit to enable Kenyans to embrace the programme. Secondly, tree seedlings should be made readily available to Kenyans and especially through the empowerment of youth and women in collaboration with KEFRI and the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS). The youth and women in this country should be encouraged to join cooperative movements in order to access cheaper seedlings due to the economies of scale. Third, there should be inter-ministerial collaborations amongst the Ministries of Environment and Forestry, Petroleum and Mining, Water and Sanitation and Tourism and Wildlife in coming up with an all-encompassing strategy on conservation and management of forests, water and natural resources in the country. Their operations should be coordinated from the Office of the President. The Ministry of Environment and Forestry should develop the capacities of KEFRI, KEPHIS and KFS on matching seedlings to specific regions. The Ministry should also develop standards for the development of nurseries across the country. Fourth, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry is urged to come up with a master plan on environmental conservation spanning at least 25 years in collaboration with all the stakeholders. Fifth, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry should focus on plantation in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) to grow tree cover in the country in order to increase the supply of forest products since there is no competition in those areas in agriculture and human habitation. We have massive tracts of land in this country and the Government should provide an enabling environment and support the private sector to convert our ASAL areas into forests. For us to achieve that, KEFRI and KFS need to provide seedlings which are specific to various parts of the country. Finally, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry should spearhead a regular tree planting exercise in collaboration with all Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), disciplined forces, donors and other stakeholders across the country. The committee recommends the following with regard to saw millers: The Ministry of Environment should carry out an audit of saw millers and further assessment on how to reduce them in order to ease pressure exerted on the forest. Second, the KFS should put up a system in which the saw millers would be required to have corporate social responsibility programmes in order to give back to the community which they operate in. On the issue to do with Community Forest Associations, the Committee recommends that the participatory forest management policy developed by the KFS should be fully implemented. The policy is to ensure that the CFAs benefit from the forest since they host and protect the forest around them. The CFAs should conduct regular elections to replace their officials to curb the situation where some CFA officials collude with forest rangers or condone malpractices. The KFS should implement the PELIS Programme in consultation with CFAs to avoid conflict within the community. Fourth, the KFS should streamline the operation of the PELIS system to curb the abuse of forests by rangers and equally, riparian areas should be out of bounds for the PELIS system. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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