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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Miano",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for East African Community, Arid and Semi-Arid Lands and Regional Development",
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    "content": "distributed to households based on affected population, severity of the drought at the point of need, nutritional requirements, trucking distance, among others. Currently, the Ministry is procuring rice and beans only. The prolonged drought affected maize production, thus creating scarcity in the market, while global geopolitics, especially the Russia-Ukraine conflict, affected the global supply chain for vegetable oil. For fortified food, the base raw material used is maize flour, whose production was severely affected by the prolonged drought. According to the guidelines and procedures for the management of relief food distribution in Kenya, the following committees are responsible at various levels- 1. State Department for Relief Food Committee. 2. County Steering Group Relief Food Committee. 3. Sub County Relief Food Committee. 4. Ward Relief Food Committee. 5. Local Relief Food Committee. 6. Sub Location Relief Food Committee. 7. Village Relief Food Committee. The following are food items that are procured- (i) Rice packaged in 50 kilogramme bags. (ii) Beans packaged in 50 kilogramme bags. (iii)Maize packaged in 50 kilogramme bags. (iv) Vegetable oil, which is a carton that contains 12 one litre packaging. (v) Fortified food bales of 25 kilogrammes each. As I have said, we are currently dealing with rice and beans. So, that is the relief food programme. The next programme we have is the Humanitarian Emergency Response, which is non-food commodities that are provided to households affected by various disasters. The non-food commodities portfolio comprises mainly iron sheets, timber, ridges and nails assorted. We also have mattresses, blankets, kitchen sets, jikos, gas lamps, tents and tarpaulins, soaps and sanitary towels. Worth taking note of is that the Ministry did not get an allocation for relief supplies in the current and now ending financial year. However, we requested for allocation as and when the need arises. The NDMA supports non-food programmes to mitigate the effects of drought through cash transfers and safety nets programme. They also do water trucking and provision of livestock feeds. The NDMA also coordinates relief food distribution by private sector-led initiatives and some development partner initiatives. The cash transfers are sourced from commercial banks. Water trucking services are mainly driven by community water users’ associations, while livestock feeds are competitively sourced locally through open tendering process. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the appendices, we have provided finer details of all the programmes that have been in place."
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