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    "id": 1443786,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Soipan Tuya",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry",
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": "The last thing I will mention is that we are encouraging Kenyans to focus. If we had been focusing on very well-structured tree growing programmes in the country, we would be very far in terms of our forest cover. However, over the years, we have been planting trees and not paying much attention to their nurturing and protection to maturity. That is why we have been deliberate in telling Kenyans we are engaging in tree growing, and not tree planting. If tree planting really counted, then we would not be planting trees anymore in this country. Therefore, even when there is no rain, the focus should be on how to protect the seedlings that we have been planting over the years. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, moving to the Question by Sen. Omogeni on the usage of Financing Locally Led Climate Action (FLLoCA) funding. Once again, I applaud the Questions put forward by the Senator for Kisumu about FLLoCA. It is a very critical Fund. Our intention as a Ministry and even in our discussions with the development partners, this is a model. It has not been tried anywhere before. Kenya is the first one to model this devolved level climate action plan that is supposed to impact on lives from the grassroots level. We have had legislators and executive members from other jurisdictions coming to benchmark with the FLLoCA. I urge this House to guard the FLLoCA funding against our hearts. The development partners are willing and ready to scale up, but only if we record success. Going to the supplementary question raised by Sen. Omogeni on the governance structure, again, it is a very easy to monitor programme. It is fashioned against programme for performance, a design by the World Bank team, has clear steps and conditions that counties must meet in order to get the next level of funding. It is in my interest, and I am sure for the Senators, that all our counties succeed in this. One of the requirements of the P4R system is that counties must come up with special purpose accounts. If they do not come up with special purpose accounts, it becomes an audit query, and they cannot be eligible for more funding. Those are things that you need to look out as Senators in your oversight role. We have climate change planning committees at the county level, and we have ward climate change committees at the ward level. At the ministerial level, my Ministry is one of the implementing agencies together with the Council of Governors (CoG) and the National Treasury. We are part of the project implementation unit. It has clear guidelines on the parameters that the counties have to meet in order to get further support. Concerning the questions raised by the Auditor-General on the Raitigo Water Project, I do not have the facts of that case. However, it is again my plea that we spotlight the FLLoCA programme to make sure that it is working and the money will not be misused because it will prevent us from getting more support from the development partners. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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