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    "id": 1125977,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "which includes group promotion through mobilisation, registration, participation and capacity building of individuals and communities. 2. The community groups include self-help groups, older persons groups, youth groups, women groups, men groups, mixed groups, community-based organisations, refugee groups, Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) groups and other special interest groups. 3. The Bill is important as it helps boost security measures through vetting and screening of community groups seeking registration. The national Government administrative officers will provide the support necessary for screening membership and objects of groups, while the county government will retain the mandate of mobilisation of communities for sustainable development. 4. The Bill was sanctioned from the Cabinet level and provides the framework for community groups registration at the local level. 5. The sub-county social development office undertake the registration of community groups and upon registration, the groups are issued with a certificate that guarantees them the right of recognition and assembly. To afford community members speedy registration, the Ministry has in effect utilised the Huduma Centres across the country. 6. Majority of the registered groups engage in socio-economic activities geared towards improvement of their livelihoods and self-reliance. 7. The process of mobilisation and registration of community groups has been undertaken since Independence. 8. In the past first five years, the State Department for Social Protection has cumulatively registered 271,400 community-based groups. The benefits of the Bill include the following: one, it provides a regulatory framework for registration, management and regulation of community groups in the country. Two, it creates an enabling operational environment that promotes community empowerment, self-reliance and sustainable development of community groups among others. In conclusion, I wish to register the highest appreciation to the Offices of the Speaker and the Clerk of the National Assembly and stakeholders who dutifully honoured their Constitutional obligations and made quality submissions before the Committee during the public participation period of the Bill. May I thank the Members of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare for their diligence and commitment to duty in undertaking their legislative, oversight and representation duties both in Committees and in this House. At this point, I wish to seek the support of all members in this House to pass this Bill so as to realise its objective, whose impact is far reaching and beneficial to our constituents. I beg to second. It is signed by Hon. Josphat Kabinga Wachira Wathayo, Member for Mwea."
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