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    "id": 1228888,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "We also recommended that the best way to ensure the sector implements its responsibilities under Articles 21 and 43 is to ensure that the policies and laws of that sector actually entrench that responsibility. For instance; to ensure progressive realisation of the right to health, are best entrenched in the Public Health Act in the Health policy at the national level and in the county sectoral laws and policies, if any. Implementers in the Executive usually have central policies and laws that guide their implementation. It is our responsibility to ensures that all those laws recognise health, water, sanitation and others as a right. In the Committee, we suggested that this Bill would call upon those in the different sectors to mainstream or recognize the responsibility to implement all their sectorial policies and laws and ensure that they are there. The enforcement or the oversight role has been given to Article 59 Commissions. The NGEC in particular which was to put in place standards, we need to find a way in which Parliament can oversight on the entire process. Parliament’s role is to represent, legislate, and oversight. This law should come up with guidance on how we can hold the Article 59 on Commissions responsible in respect of the mandate given to them to oversight the implementation of Article 43 rights. It should equally provide the standards that the Parliament can use to enforce the implementation of these rights by the Executive. The recommendations that we have made in the Committee Report were to amend this. The report specifically calls upon possibly a joint committee or relevant Committees in the two Houses that deal with human rights with a requirement to put in place a mechanism and a standard that can assist us in measuring progressive realization of these rights. These rights happen to align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with some of the Big Four Agenda of the previous Government and with the manifesto of the current Government that it wishes to implement. All we are saying in terms of implementing or enforcing these rights is putting in place a mechanism that can enable Sen. (Dr.) Khalwalwe and other Senators to go to Kakamega and wherever else to assess. If only some percentage of citizens of Kakamega can access primary health care in 2023, what measures are we going to put in place so that we find out whether that measure is better come 2026? Are we able to tell Kenyans that through our evaluation mechanism, we are making progress in so far as facilitating access to the right to health in Kakamega County is concerned? Equally, we will find out whether we are clawing back. Maybe Tana River was at a particular percentage in facilitating access to water. However, two years later, we find that percentage has dropped. We would measure to find out whether we are clawing back"
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