By: Agwanda Saye
Kisumu County Chief Officer for Communication ,Special Programmes and Public Affairs Timothy Nyakwamba is saying that the County and City faces a number of hazards such as flooding, fire outbreaks, spread of diseases ,hailstorm ,traffic related accidents ,heatwave and environmental degradation which needs urgent solution.
Speaking during the closing of a capacity building workshop titled “Urban Risk-Informed Development Planning and Making Cities Resilient ” Kajwang’ also said that better approaches to disaster risk management is therefore necessary in order to improve on the Resilience of the community which are at risk to disasters.
“The Urban Resilience scorecard tool is going to enable us to carry out self-assessment on the adequacy of the system we are operating,” he added.
According to Felix Mutua, who is a consultant with the United Nations Development Programme,they are presently strengthening Urban Resilience to emerging disaster and climate risks within the County through improved access to actionable disaster and climate risk for the City governments as well as strengthening Urban risk governance through enhanced engagement of diverse sectors and stakeholders as well as enhanced preparedness or emergency management’s capacity through knowledge networking and peer learning which includes capacity development of nodal agencies and regional NGO’s.
“Our objective is for comprehensive review and update of climate risks profile for Kisumu through updated climate risk profile and Web/mobile portal and climate risk date” he said during his presentation.
The workshop was organised by the County Government of Kisumu,GIZ- Resillience Initiative Africa (RIA), and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
