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    "id": 1162165,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "made of mabatis. In some ECDE centres, the children are also asked to borrow wash facilities from neighbouring villagers. There is no specific budget from the Ministry of Education that is allocated to provide ECDE services and majority of the county governments spend a great percentage of their division sector budgets on bursaries for learners and post account and tertiary levels, which are not devolved functions. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is quite unfortunate that by a slip of the tongue, one of them told us that building wash facilities and building classrooms, one does not get a political mileage as opposed to giving out bursaries. We need to stamp our authority as a House to ensure that the county governments take up the issues of ECDE teachers with the seriousness it deserves. Based on the observations, the Committee, therefore, recommends the following- (1) That all the county governments should implement the ECDE teachers’ scheme of service, provide budgets for ECDE teachers, salary increments and the CoGs should submit a report to the Senate on the implementation status within 60 days after tabling this report. (2) CoGs and other education stakeholders should review the job description and roles for the ECDE teachers and submit a revised report to SRC for job evaluation within 90 days from the date of tabling this report. (3) The CoG, TSC and KICD should within 90 days after tabling this report, establish modalities and create a collaboration framework on ECDE teachers’ management, career progression and capacity building. We established that issues of capacity building are a nightmare when it comes to ECDE teachers. Any teacher is going to teach in that ECDE unless we stamp our authority with issues ECDE centres and our learners in those particular areas. (4) The county governments in collaboration with their respective county assemblies should consider enacting legislations aimed at increasing annual budgetary allocation to the ECDE sector to at least 10 per cent of the county revenue. There is a Motion that I brought to this House some time back speaking on the same issue of 10 per cent of the county revenue. I did this even before becoming Chairperson of the Committee on Education. If that is followed up and we have 10 per cent of county revenue, we shall turn around the education in our counties. Without a proper foundation, the upper levels of education will be shaky. (5) Parliament should expedite processing and passage of the County Governments Grants Bill 2021 (Senate Bill No.35 of 2021) that speaks on issues grants. Such that county governments can be given a grant and this same grant should be ring- fenced to ensure that it is used in ECDE centres. Otherwise, there will be a lot of mismanagement and diversion of funds to various other sectors that are not critical. Like I said, the CoGs or rather the governors would prefer to give out bursaries which will give them political mileage as opposed to paying ECDE teachers which is going to give our little children a foundation for learning. All the time, we keep saying a"
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