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"speaker_name": "Hon. Namwamba",
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"content": "Allow me as a preliminary, to just say that the Ministry is restructuring and re- aligning all our operations to be in sync with the bottom-up economic transformational agenda of the Government. This restructuring and re-alignment includes the following, some of which are relevant to the Question Sen. Kisang has asked- First, for the Safari Rally Project, we are embarking on a fresh three-year contract following an amendment of the initial contract extending the period for hosting the WRC Safari Rally from three to six years. We are using this transition phase to restructure the whole WRC Safari Rally Project. I am pleased to report that we already have succeeded in returning the Safari Rally to its traditional Easter Season in June. Secondly, on training camps, we are instituting a mapping exercise, including enacting rules for registration, operation, reporting and monitoring of these camps. On funding, we are ring-fencing the Sports Arts and Social Development Fund (SASDF) to primarily focus on the development of sports and the creative economy. Further, we are introducing measures to enhance transparency and accountability; transparency including disclosure of any co-funding from sponsors before any federation is disbanded by the government. Those are some of the things we are doing, generally. Now allow me to move right away to move from Question No.70 on the training camps. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, and hon. Senators, Section 46 of the Sports Act, 2013 as read together with Regulation No.4 of the Sports Registrar Regulations of 2016, places the responsibility of regulating professional sports persons and bodies through licensing on the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports. This includes training camps, sports academies, athletes, referees, agents and coaches. It is important to note for the record that, indeed, training camps bear some benefits, including talent development, performance enhancement, skills transfer, knowledge sharing, exposure to international competition and other economic benefits. I will disclose to this august House that when we came to office, we realized that the benefits of training camps notwithstanding, the Ministry had not been undertaking the important task of registering, monitoring and overseeing the operations of training camps. This is a responsibility that had been relegated to Athletics Kenya. It has been a gap. To address this gap, I directed the Office of the Sports Registrar and the Anti-doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) to map all training camps immediately. The mapping exercise took place from 27th March to 3rd April, 2023, with the primary objective of identifying all training camps and gathering important information. The exercise was conducted in 53 training camps. Under Annex A, we have provided information obtained from the mapping exercise I ordered undertaken. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the team that undertook this mapping exercise ran into several challenges that I have to bring to the attention of this House. Some camps closed to evade access by the team undertaking the process. We noticed an apparent unwillingness of camp managers to share relevant information for the mapping exercise. There was a lack of awareness and understanding of existing laws and policies among the people who manage these spaces. You could notice sensitivity surrounding issues such as doping and licensing, making camp residents hesitant to provide the"
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