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    "id": 1028565,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Jacqueline Oduol",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13514,
        "legal_name": "Jacquiline Adhiambo Oduol",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. At the outset, I would like to indicate that I support Sessional Paper No.2 of 2019 on the National Policy on Gender and Development. I support this because it is clearly a review of the National Policy on Gender and Development that was in place in the year 2000. We are aware that issues that deal with development and particularly, those that seek to ensure that we, as a country, do not in any way exclude anyone on account of their gender need to be reviewed. I also support it because, as we look at it, we see that it will address the issue of the slow pace at which we were achieving the goal when we look at issues of planning and budgeting. This is because it will not only look into the manner in which we have the capacity that we would require in the respective county and national Governments, but also the necessary attitude change among the populace. From that, we can see that there was, indeed, a need to ensure that there is a timely review. Therefore, I support this Sessional Paper because as we prepare the budget and allocate finances for various developments, we know that the work will get done. If we look at the Report, we can see that the State Department for Gender under the Ministry had a proposed budget of Kshs500 million, but they only got Kshs15 million. So, the Sessional Paper is, indeed, important because it is not only showing us the slow pace at which gender issues are being implemented, but also recommends that there is need to accelerate such issues. The approaches that have been identified include the involvement of men. I noted that whenever we talk about gender in the august House, we sometimes seem to assume that we are talking about women."
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