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    "id": 1125982,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Jacqueline Oduol",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13514,
        "legal_name": "Jacquiline Adhiambo Oduol",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I would like to support because as it has been clearly indicated, this is a framework that is extremely important in terms of pulling and allowing very vulnerable persons into organised groups so that they can address very specific issues which usually touch on the community. A lot of the groups at the community level have direct impact when they come together as youth groups, older persons groups or men groups. They increasingly help us to break the fragmentation when there is a perception of struggling or fighting for little resources among the youth, women who are in the open-air markets, older persons and PWDs. It is going to strengthen and allow these groups at the community level to not only come and identify issues such as the kind of funding that they can get among themselves, but to also access training. This is to ensure that we do not have cases where women groups do a lot of work but do not have ways of getting their products to the market. Most importantly, it will allow the community groups to not only build their capacity, but their voices will also be coordinated as they begin to make an impact. It is also a very important observation that we have those social officers all over the country who have been working to co-ordinate and link. Other than challenges of the spread and numbers of those officers available, we have also found that there are ways in which this did not work effectively. Therefore, as I support this Bill, that is where we need to make a difference. Most of the time, we find that people in the community say that they do not feel what is being done. It is usually because of the manner in which information, training, exchange programmes and all other avenues of engagement reaches them. I support because this is definitely going to improve the infrastructure and the capacity of the community to look within and to use their resources. I support. Thank you."
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