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    "id": 1028673,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "We need to look at what has happened in education that we are experiencing a reversal. In as much as girls have challenges here and there in terms of education, the data we have indicates that girls have surpassed boys and this is a good indicator. When we have something good like this, what are we doing in the reverse? How do we retarget such that the boys catchup or do we want a situation where we will claim at one moment boys were left behind and girls are in front? These are some of the areas, in my view, that still need to be checked because we have information and data. We have been talking about gender mainstreaming in everything else. Who has sat down and indicated what has happened? We are talking about gender mainstreaming in the budget process. What has happened in the last 20 years and where have women gained in terms of access? Where in terms of policy and engagement do we put our capital and money? I think these are some of the issues, in my view, this Sessional Paper still needs to be checked and added up. They may not be added now because it will be passed, but in terms of actualisation. The big question is how other departments of Government are going to actualise this Sessional Paper. Will they say this Sessional Paper belongs to the Departments of Labour or Gender? What will happen? These are some of the issues that we ought to have picked up. What the Sessional Paper has brought out should cut across all the sectors. The first question which each department needs to ask is how they will engage with this Sessional Paper. Otherwise, we will pass this Paper and it will rest as many other Papers have done. We have a lot of smart Papers in our shelves collecting a lot of dirt, but when it comes to actual implementation, we come up with another third Sessional Paper without auditing what happened in the first or second one. We come out with a very beautiful Sessional Paper No.3 and life goes on. I think this is the stage where we need to change as a country. This is exactly where we have this problem when we are talking about issues that have emerged after the 2010 Constitution. There has been an audit. This House has done an audit. There was a report here in the 11th Parliament that indicated areas of weaknesses of the 2010 Constitution. When you look at that against the process that is running now, the things merge very well, that now there were weaknesses that must be sorted out as at now. One of those was this un-implementable Article that we were talking about of achieving the one-third gender rule in the House. It is not easy achieving it after elections. It is not easy achieving it in this House. Where will you get other Members if the law restricts you that you have 290 constituencies and all of them or 250 of them go to men and only 40 of them go to women? So, where do you get the other third?"
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