Welcome to KCDN

This is KCDN, an Environmental Management, Economic Empowerment and Poverty Eradication Civil Society.

We welcome you to our site. Kindly feel free to share with us your thoughts. Ideas that add value will be appreciated. Ideas that want to make us improve our physical environment will be welcome. And more so, ideas that redirect us from the lost cause will be of immense value.

It is us who will improve the lot of our Environment, our Economy and make Kenya a Clean Country, where People join hands to work for our own Economic Emancipation and where Municipal Solid Waste Management is looked at as a resource, not as waste.

We need to set the standards in this region of the World and become the referral point in how a people can join hands and work for their own Economic Liberation, where waste can be used as raw material and become a source of employment for our people.

Our collective actions will surely make a difference. This is why in partnership with our Key Strategic Partners- The Public Service Transformation Department, the National Environment Management Authority, the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation,other key Ministries, the Local Authorities in Kenya, the Provincial Administration, A Better World, Akiba Uhaki Foundation and other Partners, we are moving deliberately in sensitizing and mobilizing Kenyans to work towards A Clean Kenya where waste is separated at source.

And this is why we are inviting Kenyans to join with us in The Clean Kenya Campaign and be a Member of Kimisho Sacco Society Ltd

Welcome.

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Team Leader & Executive Director,
KCDN, KSSL, KICL & TCKC,
Tel; 0724 365 557,
Email; komarockswatch@yahoo.com, kimishodevelopment@gmail.com
Website; www.kcdnkenya.org.

Friday, July 13, 2012

Speech from Oto during the Consultative Forum on Waste Management

Consultative Forum on Waste Management
Date 11TH JULY 2012
THEME-COMPLEMENTING AWARENESS WITH PRACTICAL INTERVENTIONS.
Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Mr. Emmanuel Lubembe- Head Public Service Transformation Department.                                               Dr Kepha Ombacho- The Chief Public Health Officer- Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation.                                                                                                                                               Mr. Titus W Simiyu- The Provincial Director of Environment Nairobi.                                                       Mr. Timothy Muriuki- The Chairman Nairobi Central Bisuness District Association.                                    Dr Dave Otwuoma- Secretary- Nuclear Electricity Project- Ministry of Energy                                         Mr. Moses Mbego- Coordination Specialist- Unep Kenya Country Office                                              The CEOs present,                                                                                                                                  The Officers of the Council.
We are gathered here today to put our thought processes together in a process that will generate action and some way forward.
When we launched The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaigns in Nairobi, Mombasa, Eldoret, Kisii, Kisumu, Kakamega, Nyeri and in Naivasha in the course of last year, ours was an attempt to inspire mass participation.
We have been able to prove that this can be done, and we want to sincerely appreciate all the Councils that we have worked with, and all the Partners who have joined with us to make the concept of The Clean-ups the success story that it has been.
In their recent report on Municipal Solid Waste, the World Bank gave a gloomy projection that we must deal with. Currently, we are generating 1.1 Billion Tonnes of Solid Waste annually and according to the World Bank report, we will generate 2.2 Billion Tonnes annually by the year 2025.
The current costs of managing this waste is $205 Billion annually and this is projected to rise to $375 Billion annually by 2025. This is massive and is basically beyond reach for the developing and Poor countries such as ours.
As we assemble here today, Nairobi is generating 2,400 Tonnes of waste daily from her 4,000,000 residents. And we only have about 1,000 employees in the Department of Environment to help handle this. It is simply not possible.
The Municipal Council of Mombasa generates about 700 Tonnes of waste daily from a population of about 1,500,000 people. And she has 600 employees in the Department of Environment to deal with all issues of the Department. Again, this is simply not possible.
The Municipal Council of Kisumu with a population of 1,000,000 people generates 350 Tonnes of waste daily and she has 60 employees in the Department of Environment to handle this mess.
Lastly, the Municipal Council of Eldoret with a population of about 500,000 people generates 290 Tonnes of waste daily and they have 147 employees in their Department of Environment to sort their mess.
The statistics are almost similar across most of our Councils. You will be surprised that in most of these Councils, they have no sufficient trucks to help them cart their wastes away. Again, most of these wastes are not sorted out at Source. They are simply massed together and dropped to a dumping site.
The afore-going is what made us seek some interventions from teams that can add value and help us make a difference. We want to join hands and develop some home grown solutions to this problem, in the process, we want to turn Kenya around.
We want to propose three things;
1.      A massive awareness and Clean-up Campaign to be hosted across all these 5 Councils on the 21st July 2012, and every other 3rd Saturday of every Month
2.      Launch of separation of waste at source on the 1st August 2012,
3.      And placement of Litter Bins in strategic places to help ease the pressure.

To this extent, we want to invite partnerships in placing these Litter Bins across our Towns as we initiate the pilot process on Separation of Waste at Source.
The Clean Kenya Campaign we will help in coordinating the piloting of Separation of Waste at Source across these Councils and this will come with added opportunities namely;
1.      Our Towns will be clean
2.      The separate forms of wastes will be directed to the various converters and recyclers
3.      Employment opportunities for the youth and women groups will arise for  the Waste Conversion Conveyor Belt- groups will become our agents for waste collection and delivery
4.      And this will become an economic life line for the Youth, Women and any other organized Groups

Just have a look at this;
Blogspot; http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com
Website; http://www.kcdnkenya.org

Odhiambo T Oketch,                                                                                                                   Executive Director,                                                                                                                             The Clean Kenya Campaign- TCKC                                                                                                            
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