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"speaker_name": "Amb. Ukur Yatani",
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"content": "interventions includes: one, establishment of the National Cancer Institute as an overall coordinating agency; two, construction and equipment of comprehensive cancer centres at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), Mombasa, Nakuru and Garissa Counties; three, support to 10 county referral hospitals to operationalise chemotherapy clinics. To address quality of education in the country, the Government has rolled out radical reforms in the sector that have significantly improved the quality of education in the country. For instance, the investment in the sector has seen the number of primary schools increase from 26,549 to 32,437 and secondary schools from 7,174 to 10,413 between 2012 and 2020. The number of Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) institutions also increased from 701 to 2,301 during the same period. As a measure of unprecedented success, transition rate from primary to secondary schools moved from 64.5 per cent in 2012 to the current 100 per cent. In addition, under the radical Competence Based Curriculum (CBC), the plan for the first group to join junior secondary schools in January 2023 is well on course. Following sustained investment in human capital development, Kenya was impressively ranked position three in the sub-Saharan Africa region with a human capital index of 0.55 in the year 2020. 42. From 2013 to 2021, the Government disbursed Kshs151.6 billion through the Inua Jamii Programme to support over 1.2 million vulnerable persons, among them orphans, the elderly and persons living with severe disabilities. Further, the Government disbursed Kshs6.95 billion to support enterprises of women, youth and persons with disabilities through 74,021 groups under the Uwezo Fund. To improve efficiency in the delivery of Government services, the Government initiated and operationalised 52 Huduma Centres across the country. In 2014, the Government launched the e-Citizen platform where 350 Government services have now been successfully migrated. The platform has since served over 27.2 million customers while raising Kshs87.1 billion in revenue for the Government. In 2013, the Government successfully rolled out implementation of the 2010 Constitution. The 47 county governments, independent commissions and other institutions established by the Constitution were duly operationalised albeit with huge financial requirement thereby straining the country’s fiscal position. To build on the milestones achieved so far, we will be implementing the following policy, legal and institutional reforms to build on the milestones achieved so far, we will be implementing the following policy, legal and institutional reforms to improve the business environment, increase efficiency in public service delivery and strengthen transparency and accountability in public finance management. The Government has continued to implement various reforms in procurement to improve efficiency and transparency, enhance good governance and promote savings in the procurement process. Among the reforms is the procurement of an end-to-end e- Government procurement system whose pilot phase will commence in July 2022 with a target date for a full roll-out to all ministries, departments and agencies in January 2023. On framework contracting, we have submitted to this House for enactment the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal (Amendment) Bill, 2021. This Bill provides for multiple awards where several bidders can be awarded the same contract. Once enacted, it will hasten the delivery of services to the citizenry and support local firms particularly in specialized areas like pharmaceuticals, supply of foodstuffs and commodity markets. Further, we have put together a framework that harmonises the qualifications for supply chain management personnel that clarifies the competencies for the various cadres in the supply chain management function. In this respect, I direct all procuring entities to adhere to the requirement of this framework. 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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