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    "id": 1562093,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1562093/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musalia Mudavadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 84,
        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
        "slug": "musalia-mudavadi"
    },
    "content": "4. To study concerns raised by the Union of Kenya Civil Servants regarding designated hardship areas and payment of hardship allowance as provided in the Collective Bargaining Agreement of 2017 and make recommendations on implementation modalities. 5. To address other issues incidental to the matter of designated hardship areas and the payment of allowances thereof. 6. To prepare a report on the study with recommendations on the way forward on categorisation of designated hardship areas and payment of hardship allowances. The Inter-Agency Technical Committee undertook a wide stakeholder engagement in carrying out the study. Some of the stakeholders' engagements by the Committee were face-to- face interviews with officers from the ministries and institutions that I have mentioned. The Technical Committee undertook the following: 1. Field visits to verify findings and reports from the respective Deputy County Commissioners, analysis of socioeconomic data submitted by County Statistics Officers in the areas visited. 2. Literature review on poverty indices from annual economic surveys and reports prepared by the Commission on Revenue Allocation and the Equalisation Fund. The key findings and recommendations of the report were as follows: 1. Some areas currently designated as hardship, or petitioned by stakeholders to be categorised as such were, upon review, found not to be hardship areas. 2. The severity of hardship in the reviewed areas varied from moderate to extreme. 3. Some currently designated hardship areas covered entire counties, sub-counties, or divisions uniformly. However, some regions had only specific locations with moderate or extreme hardship conditions. These areas were reviewed and categorised appropriately. 4. Not all public officers working in hardship areas receive hardship allowances. This is due to disparities in current policy guidelines on designated hardship areas in the public service. 5. Some areas previously designated as hardship have acquired different status following implementation of the devolved system of governance and improved socio-economic development across the country. These have been reviewed and recommended for de-gazettement. 6. The report of the Inter-agency Technical Committee on Review of Designated Hardship Areas and Payment of Hardship Allowance in the Public Service was finalised and submitted to the SRC for concurrence. The SRC reviewed the report, provided approved rates, and will issue advice to the public service on the new rates once the hardship areas are gazetted following this review. 7. The reviewed designated hardship areas have been submitted to the Chief of Staff and Head of Public Service for gazettement. However, I would like to add a rider that the Head of Public Service will present the report to the Cabinet before the gazettement is done. That process is currently ongoing."
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