Event reports
Networking before the workshop: Gerard Hendriksen, Consultant for Renewable Energies, and Brian Otiende, Climate Change Coordinator with the EAC.
The first presentation is delivered by Father Aidan Msafiri from Mtwara Stella Maris University College on Climate Change and its Consequences for the East African Region.
Fazal Issa, Project Officer with the Tanzanian Civil Society Forum on Climate Change (Forum CC) summarizes the main results and implications of COP 19 for the EAC and its member states…
… before participants use the opportunity of questions and comments in a first round of Q&A.
Brian Otiende, Climate Change Coordinator with the EAC, deliberates on the EAC’s Climate Change Policy after the COP 19.
Then representatives of the member states of the EAC are asked to present their countries’ national adaptation strategies. Geofrey Bakanga from Tansania’s Vice President’s Office Environmental Division commences…
… followed by Johnson Nkusi, Rwanda Environmental NGO Forum.
Celline Oduor, representative of the Kenya Wildlife Conservation Forum, explains the Kenyan perspective.
Afterwards participants have many questions and comments; here Dr. Thomas Walter, GIZ.
Journalists use the break for some interviews before the event continues in the afternoon.
The second part of the one-day workshop is opened by the presentation of Euster Kibona, Chairperson of Forum CC, who deliberates on the role of the civil society in fighting climate change.
Richard Mwangulube, media expert, emphasizes the important role of the media in the process.
Gerard Hendriksen, expert for renewable energies, outlines the potential of reneweable energies in East Africa in general…
… before Edward Munaaba, Executive Director for Tanzania, Africa Partnership on Climate Change Coalition (APCCC), focuses on the potential of decentralized, affordable renewable energy solutions in East Africa.
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