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    "id": 1014313,
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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": "(a) Provision of cash transfers to caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children. (b) The Draft Family Policy of 2017 emphasising on parental responsibility with the following objectives: (i) Enhance equal parental responsibility at home and in public sphere. (ii) Enhance positive parenting skills to nurture and protect children from exposure to sexual abuse and teenage sexual engagement as well as alcohol and drug abuse which are associated with teenage pregnancy. In conclusion, Hon. Speaker, the Statement ends with the following: Teenage pregnancy in Kenya is a challenge that often has immediate effects on our children, their educational opportunities, future implications for their social health and economic outcomes, and negatively impacts on them. However, this is an outcome shaped by a myriad of issues affecting our adolescent girls’ lives, including community norms on gender roles, violence and the value of girls, barriers to formal education, household poverty, lack of economic independence, experience of violence and social isolation. For girls to achieve well-being in early and late adolescence, no single-sector intervention, whether in education or health or wealth creation or the prevention of violence, will be adequate. Therefore, it is critical to intervene before the myriad of issues that girls face result in outcomes that are irreversible or costly to compensate or reverse. The root causes of these vulnerabilities work in tandem to create the current situation for adolescent girls, cultural norms that do not empower women and girls, acceptance of violence, poverty, social isolation, economic vulnerability, lack of voice in society. Therefore, the interventions that will enable girls in early adolescence to make a safe and healthy transition through adolescence into adulthood must be integrated as well. Through the Inter-Ministerial Technical Working Group on adolescent health that was constituted on 20th March 2019, it is our hope that the issue will be sufficiently addressed. I thank you."
}