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    "id": 1199728,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kakamega CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Elsie Muhanda",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, aware that school meals are an important safety net for vulnerable children from food insecure households and communities in Kenya; appreciating that school meals have multiple benefits such as increased school enrolments and attendance as well as a significant and positive contribution to reducing hunger and nutritional intake; noting that primary school completion rates have been found to be higher in schools with meals thus school meals remain a core development intervention to support the country’s achievements in the education sector; recognising that some county governments have adopted direct and community-led initiatives for Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) school feeding programmes; concerned that the exercise is not supported with clear policy and budgetary framework and does not support pupils in the primary and secondary schools or forms the basic education ecosystem; cognisant of the fact that provision of school meal programmes where they have been initiated encounters different challenges impeding their effectiveness, including insufficient resources due to low budgetary allocation and cuts, lack of school feeding policy, inadequate safe cooking and drinking water, drought and famine, destruction of food by pests, lengthy and slow procurement process, and insecurity and dilapidated infrastructure; this House resolves that the Ministry of Education, through the relevant State Department, to immediately develop a school feeding policy to cover basic education pupils and proposes budgetary allocation to sustain the programme in order to ensure that children are maintained in schools for effective learning. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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