Kenya needs disaster management policy

Next week in Sendai City, Japan, representatives from countries all over the world and the United Nations community will gather for a crucial World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction to assess and review the gains made towards achieving the Hyogo Framework for Action’s (HFA) goals the world leaders committed to in Kobe, the capital of Japan’s Hyogo ten years ago.

The Sendai conference comes at a time when Kenya is grappling with some of the worst disasters, with serious social, economic, and environmental consequences. The last decade was marked by some of the worst natural and man-made disasters on record in the country.