How do you asses and recommend action in drought prone
Do NDMA and KFSSG have the capacity to offer the necessary
areas?
interventions in handling food situation and impact of drought
Basically we run a data collection system where we use mobile
in the country?
phones to ensure that we transmit data on real time from the
When you look at our functions the first role is to offer
communities. Once we receive these data at the county levels,
information.
the county officers generate a monthly report which they send
to me here in Nairobi. I then consolidate it to one report for the
The team meets monthly to discuss the county reports so that
stakeholders on monthly basis.
they advise the government and other development partners
Would you recommend assessments in drought-prone arid
counties are behaving. We also do contingency planning
lands such as Northern Kenya that is always dry?
system that is purely online where we collect information
We need constant assessment because with climate change you
never know what is going to happen next.
For instance the long rainy season that has just ended, there are
parts in North Eastern Kenya that received very good amount of
rainfall.
At the same time since drought evolves through a certain
cycle it is important