International Day For Disaster Reduction

On Saturday, 26 September 2009 at 20:47 I published an article on my facebook notes ~ https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=152581277992 . I don think now, two years later anything has really change for the good.

This is what I said;

In efforts to strengthen, coordinate n integrate disaster management strategies, the government of kenya and the whole public, including the key development national partners for our nation must come together and develop very objective n effective disaster management and response system. Its such a pain to see that the El Nino which have been for a long time predicted to come may hit us by suprise and as felt in some part of de country already its disastrous. People dying of floods where few months ago the same community was dying of drought is worrying. This leaves me wondering if really these are true disaster, nature (fate has predestined these regions to suffer come rain come shine) or is it the national negligence on the preparedness n management of disaster. I tend to lean to my latter point seeing that all through year after year Kenyans are more into useless politics at the expense of developmental ones. As far as am concerned, whether addressing humanitarian issues or floods, AIDS, clashes, drought just to mention a few as national problems n disasters, the fundamental setback in the pursuit of the same is more based on poor or lack of institutional frameworks n coordinated approaches to the same. Speaking of the ministries that are already in place, the commissions that have been set, and even policies n bills discussed, passed n published every now n then, i would expect kenya to be miles ahead in managing the so called disasters! However it always seem the above mention strategies n their stakeholdings are on and hoc players who respond to current issues more reactionary than strategically with a solution based approaches. Having norms, values n principles of interventions in writting without practical approaches will always exacerbate our problem than manage or solve them. In this regard, there need to be socio-economic and political frameworks that can articulate the strategic visions n plans such as contained in the VISION 2030 AND THE MGDs as far as disaster management n preparedness is concerned