/ VDS Project / Environment, Water and Sanitation – Policy, Legal and Institutional Reforms
Environment, Water and Sanitation – Policy, Legal and Institutional Reforms
This includes:
Finalization of National Environment Policy, Geology, Mineral and Mining Policy and Bill, Education for Sustainable Development Policy, National Chemicals Management Policy, Natural Products Industry Policy, and Master Plan for the conservation of water towers and the National Climate Change Response Strategy;
Revision of Environmental Management and Coordination Act 1999; Multilateral Environmental Agreements such as climate change will be domesticated and a Climate Change Policy formulated and a Bill prepared to guide the country’s mitigation and adaptation;
Finalization of the Meteorological Services Policy and Bill ;
Formulate an Explosives Policy and Bill to repeal the Explosives Act;
Finalization of Geo-information Policy;
Finalization of the Water Policy and Bill;
Development of a National Water Harvesting Policy;
Finalization of the Irrigation Policy and Bill;
Development of irrigation standards and regulations;
Finalization of the Land Reclamation Policy and Bill;
Finalization of Trans-Boundary Water Policy and Implementation Plan;
Development of a Groundwater Management Policy for managing the resources with a groundwater governance strategy;
Review of Forest Act 2005, Forest Policy, Timber Act and finalisation of the National Forest Programme;
Review of the Wildlife Policy and Bill;
Validation of Natural Products Industry Policy 2012 and accompanying Bill;
Finalization of National Urban Development Policy and development of a framework to guide solid waste management and storm water drainage systems in urban areas;
Development of Geographic Information System strategy to enhance land information management systems;
Implementation of the National Climate Change Action Plan; and
