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"speaker_name": "Mr. Keya",
"speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Gender, Children and Social Development",
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"legal_name": "Atanas Manyala Keya",
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"content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to reply. (a) The Women Enterprise Development Fund (WEDF) targets all Kenyan women as individuals, registered groups or companies owned by women. The fund uses two distribution channels to reach the target clientele namely: Constituency women enterprise scheme through which only registered womenâs self help groups are targeted. Financial intermediaries who are free to lend money to individuals, groups or companies owned by women. Since under the Constituency Women Enterprise Scheme we lend the women self help groups, it is not possible go give names of individuals, but the number of groups funded per region is as indicated in the table below. Nairobi Province with 152 registered women groups received Kshs7,598,000. In Coast Province, there were 489 groups who were given Kshs20,138,930. Eastern Province had 615groups which were given Kshs28,786,000. In Western Province, there were 430 groups which were given Kshs20,763,000. In Central Province, there were 484 groups which were given a total of Kshs25,459,000. Nyanza Province had 663 groups which were given Kshs30,656,200. In Rift Valley, there were 914 groups which were given Kshs44,919,000. North Eastern Province had 166 groups which were given Kshs7,450,000. The total number of groups that benefited was 3,913. They were all given Kshs185,768,130. The 3,913 groups are composed of 91,910 individual women members. (b) The financial intermediaries have lent fund money to individual women as follows: Nairobi Province, 6,500 women beneficiaries; North Eastern Province, 50 women beneficiaries; Coast Province, 400 women beneficiaries; Rift Valley, 1,300 women beneficiaries; Nyanza, 850 women beneficiaries; Eastern Province, 500 women beneficiaries; Central Province, 1,400 women beneficiaries and Western Province, 1,000. The total number of women who benefitted was 12,000. (c) Due to the confidentiality clauses in the loan agreement, it is not possible to give the names of individual borrowers---"
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