GOVERNOR MUTULA KILONZO JR TODAY LED A DELEGATION OF COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO HELD A CONSULTATIVE MEETING WITH THE MOROCCAN AMBASSADOR TO KENYA H.E. ABDERRAZAZAK LAASSEL TO DISCUSS AREAS OF PARTNERSHIP.

Governor Mutula Kilonzo Jr today led a delegation of County Executive Committee Members who held a consultative meeting with the Moroccan Ambassador to Kenya H.E. Abderrazazak Laassel to discuss areas of partnership.

The partnership areas that were discussed included Imaging and Laboratory Services under the Health Department, Climate Change adaptation, Urbanization, Natural resource mapping and mitigation strategies under the Lands Department, and Feasibility studies of water projects in the CIDP, preparing them for donor funding.

Other key areas that were explored included Renewable Energy sources in powering health facilities from dispensaries to level 5 hospitals, power stability and reduction in power operating costs, powering water sources, water distribution, and irrigation processes.

In agriculture, green energy was explored as a means to promote post-harvest practices that increase the shelf life of agricultural produce through the use of solar-powered cold rooms.

Furthermore, community and user capacity building on renewable energy was also discussed in order to enhance knowledge of new technologies in the sector.