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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Amb. Ukur Yatani",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury and Planning",
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    "content": "3. Enhance investment in key economic sectors for broad-based sustainable recovery by promoting agricultural transformation, growth in manufacturing, environmental conservation and water supply, stimulating tourism recovery, and sustainable land use and management. 4. Expand access to quality social services in health, education and appropriate social safety nets for the vulnerable population. 5. Support the youth, women and persons living with disabilities through Government- funded empowerment programmes that leverages on partnerships with private sector organisations. 6. Support the County Governments through transfer of sharable revenues to strengthen their systems and capacity in service delivery. 7. Implement various policies, legal and institutional reforms to enhance efficiency of public service delivery. Hon. Speaker, following the outbreak of the Pandemic, we implemented the Economic Stimulus Programme to support economic activities and mitigate the adverse impact of the pandemic on Kenyans and businesses. The achievements of the Programme include: 1. Creation of over 100,000 job opportunities for the youth under the “Kazi Mtaani” initiative and 5,500 community scouts in wildlife conservation areas across the 47 counties. 2. Improvement of education outcome through construction of additional classrooms in secondary schools, procurement of locally fabricated desks for both primary and secondary schools and recruitment of 4,000 and 8,000 primary and secondary school intern teachers, respectively; 3. Enhancement of healthcare system capacity by recruiting 5,000 diploma and certificate level healthcare workers for one year under the Universal Health Coverage; 4. Enhancement of liquidity to business through payment of VAT refunds of Kshs10 billion and clearance of pending bills of Kshs13.1 billion; 5. De-risking of lending to micro, Small and Medium Enterprises by providing Kshs3 billion to the Credit Guarantee Scheme as a seed capital; and, 6. Cushioning the vulnerable particularly, the emerging urban vulnerable, with an additional Kshs10 billion to the cash transfer programme. Hon. Speaker, building on the success of the aforementioned interventions, the Government is now set to implement an elaborate Economic Recovery Strategy that aims to reposition the economy on an inclusive and sustainable growth trajectory. This Strategy seeks to enhance resource mobilisation to ensure sustainable funding of our development programmes from diverse sources, including Public Private Partnership (PPP) and lease financing. The Strategy will also support the role of the private sector in the economy and further facilitate credit access by Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises through the Credit Guarantee Scheme. Under the Strategy, the Government will upscale investment in ICT and digital infrastructure in order to facilitate e- commerce and efficient delivery of public services. The Government shall also promote local production processes and domestic supply value chains and strengthen social-protection through targeted policy interventions and programmes. Undoubtedly, successful implementation of this Strategy will enable us realise the aspired economic growth, create employment and narrow income inequalities. I will later in this Statement, propose budget allocations to the Government priority areas. Besides the achievements under the Economic Stimulus Program, the on-going key The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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