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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of National Youth Policy came up during the Ninth Parliament and it was agreed that we should have a youth policy for this country. So, the Bill that we have before us, which I am seconding, is therefore, meant to operationalize the National Youth Council Policy that we discussed in the Ninth Parliament. In order to make the youth of this country useful to us--- I know the youth have done us proud, for example, in just the recently concluded World Athletics Championships in Berlin, which was held between 15th and 23rd August, 2009, where Kenya was number three overall in the whole world behind the United States of America and Jamaica. They got 11 medals. The youth of this country have done us proud but unfortunately, as a country, we have not focused much in trying to help them to access employment and to be assured of better health facilities and training. Even as they struggle to give us more medals, we should ensure that there are proper sports and recreational facilities for them. Under the Vision 2030 programme, the youth is one of the issues that we have focused on to ensure that the youth of this country contribute to economic development of our country. In that Vision 2030, which is under my Ministry, we want to ensure that the youth have access to better training and that we upgrade technical and vocational training and ensure that they have entrepreneurship to make sure that productivity in all our sectors is enhanced. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, within the Vision 2030 youth programme, we are also focusing on the revision of education and training curriculum at all levels. Within that, we intend to rehabilitate all youth polytechnics, to raise the level of entrepreneurship and technical ability of our youth. We want to introduce a national programme to recognize the talents of the youth, especially those who are able to excel in various skills. Within the flagship project for 2012, in the medium plan, 2008/2012, and already this is being undertaken by the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs, there is proper provision to ensure that we construct the youth centres in every constituency. This is already being done. Within that, as a Government, we plan to have a sports lottery fund that will assist the youth to develop and nurture their sporting talents. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, within the Bill that we are debating now, we intend to promote and popularize the youth policy which deals with issues that affect the youth. We also want the youth to be able, within the provision of the Bill, to advocate and lobby legislation on issues affecting them. We want to ensure that all youth activities are mainstreamed in our planning and budgeting process. Already, as you are aware, the Government has undertaken some initiatives towards that by starting programmes like"
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