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    "id": 1092048,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1092048/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Horr, FAP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Chachu Ganya",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
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    "content": "final stage community/stakeholder’s participation to allow for development of an Environmental Impact Assessment document. (iv) Stakeholders and community engagements: the KWS has been working closely with key conservation stakeholders like Save the Elephants, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Tsavo Trust and Wildlife Works in ensuring that communities are supported in mitigating human-wildlife conflict especially in the named hotspots. These include support for construction of wildlife proof fence, de-silting of water pans and dams, enterprise projects like bee keeping and sunflower farming. Regular engagement with the communities has also been ongoing with the intention of creating awareness on harmonious co-existence with wildlife and to address any inherent concern from the community in regard to human-wildlife conflicts. Hon. Speaker, I am just about to conclude. On the measures being taken to compensate families affected by the human-wildlife conflict in Voi Constituency, compensation has been widely used in Kenya as a method for mitigating the impacts of human-wildlife conflict. The Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013, provides for compensation for human death, human injury, livestock predation, crop destruction and property damage cases caused by wildlife. The amounts of compensation in relation to personal injury, death or damage to property, crops or predation is provided for in Section 25 of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013. The compensation process provides that human-wildlife compensation claims lodged by victims of human-wildlife conflict shall be deliberated by the County Wildlife Conservation and Compensation Committee (CWCCC) and a determination made. The deliberation and recommendations of the CWCCC shall be discussed by the Ministerial Wildlife Compensation Committee and a recommendation made to the CS, Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife for payment approval or any other determination as the case may be. All conflicts incidences from Voi Constituency are verified and compensation forms are issued to the affected members of the community. On the status of payment of human-wildlife conflict compensation to victims of human- wildlife conflicts in Voi constituency which have been pending for the last 5 years, the Government, through the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, has been releasing compensation funds for settlement of approved human-wildlife conflict compensation claims across the country. A total of 437 compensation claims for victims of human-wildlife conflicts from Voi Constituency have been processed and approved for payment. Out of these, 363 claims amounting to Kshs23,878,717 were processed for payment by the end June 2021. The balance of 75 approved claims amounting to Kshs46,850,080 are pending awaiting allocation of funding from the National Treasury. A detailed response with the list of the 363 claims cases for processed payment and those of the 75 approved cases pending payments have been shared with the Member. I submit, and I thank you, Hon. Speaker, for the opportunity."
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