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"speaker_name": "Mr. Kajembe",
"speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources",
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"content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) It is true that Kenya is a signatory to the Ramsar International Convention on Wetlands which was adopted on 2nd February, 1971. All issues pertaining to the convention in respect of Kenya have been well captured in the Environment Management and Co-ordination Act, EMCA, 1999, which is the supreme law on environment management in the country. My Ministry is currently at an advanced stage of finalizing the relevant regulations that will ensure sustainable management of the countryâs wetlands in line with the requirements of EMCA. (b) As explained in âaâ above the Government has already operationalised the Environment Management and Co-ordination Act, 1999, which has taken care of all issues related to environment management in the country, including wetlands. (c) My Ministry has constituted a committee of experts on issues related to wetlands and mandated it to come up with a detailed inventory and status report on wetlands in the country, which will result in a comprehensive wetlands atlas covering all the wetlands in the country. It may be noted that the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources has always been financially constrained. However, I have already reached out to international partners, including UNEP, to support the inventory and mapping of our wetlands and their bio-diversity resources. The conservation of the countryâs wetlands is led by the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) in partnership with lead agencies, including KWS."
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