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"content": "and corruption has deepened inequality and poverty, especially among women, youth and other marginalized groups. Getting vaccines to African citizens fast, efficiently and equitable should be the core priority of every leader and government on the continent. As of September 2020, the African Development Bank (ADB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank had collectively disbursed around USD60 billion to African governments. Currently, they have plans to issue further USD650 billion of special drawing rights. Mr. Speaker, Sir, open government measures must accompany all efforts to raise resources for vaccines and ensure that the purchase and donated vaccines through Covax get to those who need them the most, especially in Africa. These open government measures will help citizens and the international community better trust governments. Open and equitable access to vaccine will protect lives, livelihoods and ensure African economies recover quickly which are the pillars of the global response to COVID-19. To achieve that, we need to invest first in open, inclusive and accountable procurement processes. Opening the procurement process will enable citizens, civil societies, media and other stakeholders to help inform the planning process, monitor the supply chain, identify corruption risks and detect illegalities. Mr. Speaker, Sir, secondly, innovative citizen centered programmes that ensure, especially through public participation, an equitable distribution of vaccines during this time of COVID-19 with a focus on getting to the poorest and marginalized are still in the middle and upper classes. Creating mechanisms for citizens to provide feedback on vaccine distribution and related services. Vaccine registration portals, and I think for us in Kenya, all the county governments got a share of the vaccine that was through AstraZeneca. We hope the second one will be availed to county governments and our public hospitals so that our people in our counties can access this vaccine either in both or second doses. Mr. Speaker, Sir, vaccine registration portals, for example, offer an interesting opportunity to close the feedback. Loop allows it to submit grievances if they are unfairly denied vaccines or experience other issues. Registration portals should play a vital role in helping the Government to collect information on who and where citizens have been vaccinated. To allow accountability, this information will need to be shared with citizens easily through readable formats while maintaining potential data privacy. I think even as vaccination continues as a nationwide exercise, there should be a way we should have feedback the way you get a short message from the Ministry of Health when you have been vaccinated and when to expect your second dose. As Sen. Wetangula said in the morning, most Kenyans have “ kabambe ”, I believe those “ kabambe ”, we can still use the short messages. In finality, as we embark on the implementation of the National Action Plan Fourth 2020-2025 in harness, Kenya hopes to continue being an Open Government Partnership (OGP) ambassador in the region and globally. To this end, the National Action Plan Fourth activities are designed to institutionalize open government and build great resilience of OGP to withstand the future political transitions, economic shocks"
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