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    "id": 1031218,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1031218/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Limuru, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Mwathi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
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    "content": "(iv) Measures to sustain political goodwill must be employed since political leaders from communities where the practice is still rampant who publicly advocate against the practice risk losing political support in their areas; (v) There is need for accurate up-to-date data on FGM prevalence since some communities like the Kuria where the practice is rampant are not captured in the policy; (vi) The approach on the fight against FGM should include de-localising teachers and medical practitioners from FGM prevalent areas to low prevalent areas for proper dissemination of the anti-FGM agenda. This will foster cultural integration which will break the transfer of the culture of practicing FGM from one generation to another; (vii) Men should be empowered through training on the negative effects of FGM so as to enable them to effectively support the efforts to eradicate the FGM practice; (viii) The Anti-FGM Board should explore other effective ways and strategies that might work in eradicating the FGM practice including-involvement of local opinion leaders, chiefs, and religious leaders, among others; and, (ix) The proposed budget for effectively implementing the Presidential directive on ending FGM by 2022 is approximately Ksh1,491,800,000. However only about Ksh100 million has been allocated. The Anti-FGM Board should engage the relevant stakeholders and partners to adequately fund its activities in line with the provisions of Section 14 of the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act (No.32 of 2011) on funding of the Board. Hon. Speaker, the committee therefore recommends as follows: 1. That this House adopts this Report on Sessional Paper No. 3 of 2019 on National Policy for eradication of FGM and consequently; 2. Approve Sessional Paper No. 3 of 2019 on National policy for eradication of FGM. As I conclude, allow me to thank your office, the office of the Clerk of the National Assembly for the support accorded to this Committee during consideration of this Sessional Paper. I also appreciate and recognise the role the committees’ secretariat in the preparation of the Report. May I also extend the Committee’s appreciation to the State Department for Gender for coming up with this policy on appraising the committee on the immense importance of this policy in the eradication of harmful practice of FGM in Kenya. I, therefore, beg to move and request my Vice-Chair, Hon. Gideon Koske, to second."
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