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    "id": 1014312,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Limuru, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Mwathi",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
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    "content": "The policy aims to enhance the sexual reproductive health status of adolescents in Kenya and contribute towards realisation of their full potential in national development. The policy intends to bring adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health and rights issues in the mainstream health and development. Issue number three was on the steps the Government has taken to strengthen parental care and community protection mechanisms to prevent and detect teenage pregnancy. It was responded to as follows: The following are the steps being undertaken by the various MDAs: (i) Ministry of Education (a) Assessing and monitoring enforcement of the Gender in Education Policy of 2015 through the Quality Assurance and Standards Officers. (b) Training of key stakeholders like the parents, head teachers and the teaching and non-teaching staff together with the pupils on the policy to minimise stigma. (c) Sharing of parental guidelines and materials developed by the KICD and engaging the parents’ association at county and national levels. (d) Makes it a standing and mandatory agenda to discuss sessions on adolescent health and teenage pregnancies during boards of management’s and parents’ associations meetings or any other parents’ meeting. (ii) The Inter-Ministerial Technical Working Group For this agency, the response was that it has: (a) Developed a national standard information package for parents and guardians on adolescent health for schools, children’s homes, refugee camps, borstal institutions, rescue centres, safe homes and rehabilitation centres. (b) Initiated a high level advocacy on parental empowerment and engagement ant national and county levels including and not limited to faith based communities, unions and associations such as the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET), the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the National Council for Population and Development (NCPD). (c) Instituted quarterly reporting on adolescent health and teenage pregnancy by institutions of learning like primary schools, secondary schools and colleges. (d) Targeting parents with specific information from regions most affected by FGM, children marriage, gender based violence and other harmful traditional practices. (e) Development of sensitisation packages for communities engaged in adolescent health of gate keepers and opinion shapers, faith based organisations, community based organisations and local and political administrative leaders on prevention of teenage pregnancy. (f) Holding strategic meetings with key interested groups, namely, transport associations like of bodabodas and matatus, fish mongers and others with collaboration with the Ministry of Transport. (g) Established partnerships with gate keepers and opinion shapers. (iii) Ministry of Labour and Social Protection The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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