Welcome to the MEMR

Welcome to the MEMR

NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME

Environmental Policy and Management Component

Introduction

The Environmental Policy and Management Component will support the realization of Vision 2030 in general and, specifically, in the areas of environmental planning and governance, with the assumption that an enabling policy and regulatory framework for environmental and natural resource management, including climate change, is developed and implemented with a poverty orientation. In the First Medium-Term Plan up to 2012 the following strategies under environmental planning and governance will be supported:

•   Upgrade the capacity of institutions for enhanced environmental data and information coverage and application;
•   Develop a policy framework to harmonize environmental-related laws and institutions, and promote the capacity for collective enforcement of environmental standards;
•   Strengthen institutional capacities of multi-sectoral planning and strengthen linkages between institutions of planning and environmental management;
•   Establish a baseline on the state of the environment for future environmental planning; and
•   Strengthen negotiating capabilities through top talent development and compliance with Multilateral Environment Agreements (MEAs).

International Year for Biodiversity.

Background

The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year for Biodiversity. It is a celebration of life on earth and its value to humankind. People all over the world are expected to take action in 2010 to safeguard all forms of life on earth.

Human beings rely on diversity for food, fuel, medicine and other essentials. Regrettably it is being lost at a greatly accelerated rate because of human activities. This impoverishes human beings and weakens the ability of the ecosystems, on which we depend, to resist growing threats such as climate change

World Development Report

For more information, please go to www.worlbank.org/wdr2010

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Today's enormous development challenges are complicated by the reality of climate change─the two are inextricably linked and together demand immediate attention. Climate change threatens all countries, but particularly developing ones. Understanding what climate change means for development policy is the central aim of the World Development Report 2010.

DRSRS Commissions a new Plane

COMMISSIONING OF CESSNA 208B GRAND CARAVAN AIRCRAFT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF RESOURCE SURVEYS AND REMOTE SENSING BY THE MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT AND MINERAL RESOURCES – HON. JOHN NJOROGE MICHUKI, EGH, MP

The Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources, Hon. John N. Michuki, EGH, MP, on Friday, 11th June, 2009 at Wilson Airport launched a new aircraft, CESSNA 208B Grand Caravan and new aerial survey camera acquired by the Department of Resource Surveys and Remote Sensing (DRSRS). Afterwards, he took a flying tour of the country’s water towers while accompanied by his Permanent Secretary, Mr. Lawrence Lenayapa, CBS; the Director of DRSRS, Mr. Japhat Agatsiva and other senior Ministry officials.

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