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    "id": 1497130,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Thika Town, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alice Ng’ang’a",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Hon. Speaker, the Member raised this Question on 14th October 2024. There are two Questions. I am also going to summarise because the Report is huge. The first Question was about a report on the status of disbursement of the NGAAF balance for the Financial Year 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 to Machakos County, and the measures that have been put in place to ensure timely disbursements to enable the continuation of the projects that are approved for funding. Hon. Speaker, under NGAAF Regulations 2016, the following is the process of applying for the NGAAF Funds. Regulation 20 says that once a year, the county committee shall invite interested members of the public to submit project proposals for funding through public notice in all the wards within the county. Two, the county committee shall receive and review all the project proposals and prepare a list of projects to be recommended to the board for approval. Three, the county controller shall submit the list prepared under paragraph two to the Chief Executive Officer who shall submit them to the board for approval. Hon. Speaker, the Chief Executive Officer is yet to formally receive the county request for the project to be funded. As such, the disbursement of the funds to the county cannot be immediately effected. Once the request is received, including the request for disbursement of the NGAAF balance for the Financial Year 2023/2024 to Machakos County, the fund will take the necessary and procedural measures to ensure timely disbursement of the said funds to the county for implementation of the approved project. The balance for Machakos County as of 2023/2024 is Ksh14,062,000 and was disbursed on October 2023 as soon as it was formally requested. Question two, the Member had asked about the action that has been taken by NGAAF to immediately post Ms. Betty Kanyili Njoni PFM No.2019142127 as the Fund County Coordinator for Machakos County for an un-interrupted contract of at least a year in order to ensure effective and seamless administration of the Fund, including the timelines for posting. The National Government Affirmative Action Fund 2016, Regulation 16 provides that the function and composition of the county committee in each county should be among others, the National Government officer in charge of the county and who is responsible for gender affairs or his or her nominee, the county coordinator be an ex-officio member while the secretary be the secretary of the committee. The Fund has been engaging the county gender office on a need-be basis as a stop-gap measure due to lack of approved human resource instruments and sufficient funds to cater for personal emolument. The State Co-operation Advisory Committee (SCAC) noted that such an arrangement of deploying staff from the mainstream Government to run the operations of the Fund may be detrimental. In this regard, SCAC advised that the Fund finalises the development and approval of their human resource instrument and subsequently commence the process of recruiting its own staff, subject to availability of resources. Hon. Speaker, I will go to where they have advised. They have said that it is against this background, and as advised by SCAC and the provision of the Public Service Commission Act, 2017, that the Board, in its 92nd Meeting on 13 September 2024, resolved to phase out the deployed gender officer from acting as the county coordinator upon expiry of their respective contracts and replace them with a substantive county coordinator to enable the gender office to undertake its critical role of oversight as per the NGAAF Regulations 2016. The Fund has since deployed a substantive county coordinator, Mr. Mutua Murumba, who was the successful candidate with effect from 4th November 2024. The officer has since reported and is currently"
}