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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "This Motion seeks to help us move from doing cosmetic things in the international arena and bringing back accountability on development back home. Even as we speak on the SDGs, you will be shocked. I think you know it but we have never thought through. When we report internationally on the SDGs, we report on the same issue to other international bodies. The right to health is one of the SDGs. It is in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The Executive has reports by different bodies on the right to health. However, never have we had the Executive reporting to the people of Kenya, through Parliament, specifically on these issues that we are speaking to. If this mechanism is adopted as colleagues have contributed, we will not only hold them accountable to the ordinary Kenyan but we will also make it easier for the Executive to have one report from which they can draw the reports to the different committees in the African region and globally, where they report on these issues. What we are raising here today is an important tool that I hope the Executive and the CoG will embrace as an accountability tool. The key issues that I have picked from colleagues is that this will help us to entrench a proper mechanism for measuring development, not only at the county but also at the national level. It will also be a good accountability tool, so that when we are told that a dam is being built and it is going to reform a whole county like we have been told today, for instance, in Nandi, we will know how much money went into the dam. We will also be following up to know that before the dam was constructed, only 20 per cent of the people in Nandi could access water. After the dam is in place and connections have been done, we have moved to 60 per cent. That is how we should work. The ordinary Kenyan will be able to speak to these issues, so that we do not use fancy language that can only be understood by the international community. If we come up with a tool that is clear, when that report is submitted to the Senate about, for example, how Murang’a, Kakamega or Kisumu counties have done, then the people of Kakamega, Murang’a or Kisumu will follow. I can assure you that the people of Kakamega have no clue on what the Government of Kenya was doing two weeks ago in New York while reporting on the SDGs. I do not even know as a Senator exactly what they were reporting on the counties that I am interested in. This mechanism will help us to move from that. There are other issues that I have picked. A Senator indicated that we need to customize the implementation and monitoring so that we, first, account to ourselves before we account to people out there. We should come up with a simple matrix that the people of Kenya can relate to. As I speak, there is something called a dashboard through which countries are supposed to report on the SDGs. That dashboard is on a website of the Ministry of Planning. It is not even accessible to us. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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