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    "id": 1097978,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1097978/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
        "slug": "agnes-zani"
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    "content": "We have responsibilities at both the county and the national level and, therefore, we want to have space for the counties to come up with centers of excellence, or come up with specific programs that are going to be important in those specific counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, some of the issues that we have been dealing with at the level of the various counties is to find out what their resource allocation is and how they are using it. In addition, the measures that the county governments have taken to ensure that the centers are adequately resourced stating the data of the number of well-equipped workshops, laboratories, classrooms, libraries, et cetera . With regard to this, I emphasize that it is very important to ring fence the money meant for technical vocational education centers. We have about Kshs2 billion that went to technical vocational training centers under conditional grants. Let us now change because we do not have conditional grants. That money is going as a package to the counties. We request governors, Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) and CECMs to ensure that there is a system for ring fencing that money so that is used as it is meant to be. This means that they have to come up with very innovative ways. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to report that, recently one of the counties want to tag the money per enrollment rates so that there is a specific amount for enrollment for particular students. I think that is one way, but I am sure that many counties are looking for dynamics and the dynamism of how to put that into place. Strategies employed by the county governments to ensure that there is accurate, timely and relevant data on the labour market, which enables coordination and development of programs aimed at urging the Government to instill supply of skills demand, locally and nationally. There is a gap between skills supply and demand, locally and nationally."
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