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"content": "Good! Hon. Senators, we now have the Cabinet Secretary for Gender, Culture, the Arts and Heritage in the House."
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"content": "(Sen. Munyi Mundigi consulted loudly)"
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"content": "Sen. Mundigi, you do not exchange directly with your colleague. You know exactly what to do if you have any issue. Now, the Cabinet Secretary is here to respond to Question No.50 by Sen. Catherine Mumma and Question No.76. Hon. Cabinet Secretary, welcome to the Senate. Since this is your first time appearing before this House, and I believe Parliament, I will guide you on the procedure that we ordinarily follow during Question Time. Now, the Senator who has a question will rise to ask the question. Thereafter, I will ask you to respond to the Question. Once you are done responding to the Question, the Senator who rose to ask the question will have a chance to ask you two supplementary questions. The supplementary questions must be related to the primary questions that you have responded to. Thereafter, all the other Senators will be at liberty to ask further supplementary questions. If I feel that a question asked by a Senator is not a supplementary question, I will guide whether you are in a position to respond to it or not. If you are not in a position to respond to it because you are unprepared and the question is unrelated to the primary question, you will not be under any obligation to respond to it now. However, you may undertake, at some later date, to supply a written response to a question that you feel is not a supplementary question in its nature, but it is important that it be responded to. I will now ask Senator Catherine Mumma to ask Question No.050. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you, for the opportunity to ask this Question. Hon. Cabinet Secretary, you are welcome to the Senate and congratulations for going through the processes of being appointed. The women of Kenya are looking up to you to help move ahead the step on matters of gender. I beg to ask the following Question- (a) How has the Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) performed in providing affordable and accessible loans since the digitization exercise initiated in 2023, and could the Cabinet Secretary provide data per county on the- (i) number of women groups and individuals who have benefited since the inception of the new system; (i) increase in the disbursement of loans to Chamas / Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMSEs) over the last two financial years; (iii) increase in the on-boarding of new Chamas into the Fund's database since the inception of the digital system; and, (iv) number of groups that have dropped out of the Fund due to challenges they encountered during on-boarding into the new system and what the Ministry is doing to restore them. (b) What measures is the Ministry taking to address concerns regarding the punitive decision of scrapping credit scores for groups that had built their credit scores over the years dating back to long before the digitization of the Fund? (c) What is the Ministry doing to ensure women entrepreneurs who wish to do business outside of Chamas are not discriminated against when it comes to accessing WEF loans? Thank you."
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"content": " Hon. Cabinet Secretary, you may now proceed to respond."
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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will go straight to answering the questions. On Part (a) of the Question, the fund changed its lending business model to digital from January, 2023 following a presidential directive. The digital loan system went live on 1st January, 2023, allowing women groups to opt into own *254# without a requirement of prefunding criteria except to having a Safaricom line. The initial phase was pilot, which ran till 16th September, 2023. Then it was halted due to an unprecedented loan default rate. Through this model, the fund had disbursed Kshs941,901,105 to 18,955 women groups. I invite the House to look at Annexure 1, which has the data. The data on the Annexure puts together all the digital loans given as per the counties, the groups, the amount and the loan balance. The loan balance as at September, 2024 is Kshs695,672,783. It is detailed as per the county, and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "you can see the groups and how much was given and how much has been paid back and the balance thereof. Bullet two on that question is increase in the disbursement of loans to"
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