East Africa Partner States have committed to scale up investments in the conservation of Lake Victoria to protect the water body from pollution and adverse effects of climate change.
Principal and Permanent Secretaries from the EAC partner states sharing the resource committed to increasing budgetary allocations to ensure various conservation programmes in the Lake are sustained.
Speaking during the 11th Joint Regional Policy Steering Committee (RPSC) meeting for Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) projects and programmes, the PS's underscored the need for partner states to take the lead in resource mobilisation to give impetus to the drive to save the lake.
The meeting chaired by Kenya's State Department for Water and Sanitation Principal Secretary (PS) Julius Korir rooted for locally led interventions to conserve the lake, which continues to experience rapid pollution affecting both human and aquatic life.
