The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC is happy to announce The Practical Steps
that will ensure separation and recycling waste
becomes a reality. These will be deliberated during the 2nd Consultative
Forum on Waste Management. We are happy with the massive response we
have received from
various groups across the whole country who have indicated a willingness
to be part of the process.
While we would have wished to accommodate everybody, we must be alive to
the
logistical constraints. However, we still welcome written submissions;
these
will still add value to the whole thinking.
We will put out the final
list today afternoon. We are happy that all these groups are all doing something
towards cleaner environments and these are the efforts we wish to consolidate,
compliment and above all, structure.
Environmental and waste
management has been going on for a while but our towns and cities are becoming
dirtier. It can only mean such efforts need to be re-looked at and structured.
The various groups will work
out The Practical Steps that we all
need to take in order to ensure success at all levels with specific timelines
and commitments to the gaps that have been identified. The public sector,
private sector and organized groups will be tasked to meet these gaps in ways
that ensure we all create a structured approach towards the success of this
initiative.
In this regard, we are happy
to announce that the Public Service Transformation Department-PSTD at the
Office of the Prime Minister and A Better World/SOF-DI have given full support to this process
through logistical support to organize, monitor and track progress of this
initiative. The Ministry for Public Health and Sanitation has offered to
spearhead the placement of waste receptacles in various pilot areas when we
begin this process, committed to issue and enforce policy directions to Public
Health Workers and Environment Officers, they will also provide TCKC with safety
equipment such as nose masks and gloves as we continue awareness and cleanup
campaigns. National Environment Management Authority-NEMA, Nairobi has
committed to give technical support to TCKC and ensure enforcement of
regulations.
These are the kind of Practical
Steps and Commitments we are talking about, specifics which TCKC and partners can
follow up on.
Within the next 3 months, immediate
interventions should be in place followed by short term and long
term interventions. Our goal is to ensure that as Kenya turns 50 next year,
we will celebrate the Silver Jubilee in cleaner environments. This is a
deliverable that we do not need to wait till 2020 to achieve; the challenges
that come with such deplorable living conditions are far too great for such a
wait. Diseases to not wait to afflict us later, we suffer them now, the gains
we loose such as earnings from tourism and investments due to filthy towns
cannot wait for some hypothetical years, we must trap those now. Our human
dignity cannot wait for later years; we must ensure we live dignified lives
now.
The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC wishes to thank our key
partners, The Public Service Transformation Department at the OPM, A
Better World/SOF-DI and strategic partner,The Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, The National Environment
Management Authority-NEMA, Nairobi, the various individuals and groups
who have offered us support in one way or another, we appreciate the strong
belief that we can all come together and work together towards a dignified
environment that we all deserve to live in. Cleaner towns and cities are
possible by June 1st 2013 when we celebrate our Silver Jubilee.
Best Regards,
Otieno Sungu,
Programs Manager.
The Clean Kenya
Campaign-TCKC
Tel; 0729 29 4743
Email; otienoraphael@gmail.com
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Website; www.kcdnkenya.org
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