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    "content": "represent two different types of disability. This is because PwDs have had to fall back to this industry to earn a living. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when discussing the mandates of the national Government and each county at Clause 3, the Bill talks of creating an enabling environment through support, direct and indirect. It talks of formulating and implementing policies and strategies for development and promotion of sustainable, diverse creatives, which is a good one. Just a typo on that Clause at (b). I would say national and county levels, add an “s” there to read levels not level of Government. Clause 3(c) talks of promoting the development of entrepreneurship skills for persons in the creative industry economy through programmes offered in institutions of higher learning. If you say institutions of higher learning, you then limit it to only some cadre of the institutions. I urge Sen. Eddy to simply make it to be in education and other learning institutions, so that we can start thinking of introducing creatives even in early childhood learning. We can have spaces that will have children participating in drama, theater, singing and things like those. So we should not make it an issue just of higher learning because this is about nurturing talent. Clause 3 (e) says “review existing international and domestic trade policies, and practices that hinder--- I am sure that whoever is drafting this, you can see there are some wording missing there. You should say to eliminate practices that hinder the growth of the creative industry while incorporating provisions that will mitigate against such negative provisions. I am speaking particularly to the staff that are assisting Sen. Eddy to draft this. Please, read through to ensure that there is grammatical flow of developing this Bill. Clause 4 says- “The cabinet secretary shall establish and maintain an online platform where persons in the creative industry may publish events and current affairs in the creative industry.” I wonder whether in our experience, our Government ministry will be the best place to actually create and maintain a website that is marketing the creatives. I think what we want is for the Government to provide just enough environment. The Ministry of ICT is supposed to be putting up ICT hubs in every constituency. Hopefully, they can move to every ward. That space should just have enable safe internet access to ensure that the young creatives can actually market themselves as they are able to provide. Clause 5 says- “The Cabinet Secretary responsible for matters relating to education shall ensure that the curriculum developed under Section 4(d) of the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development includes subjects relating to the creative industry.” I suggest that another clause be added, so that it is not just the school curriculum that has it, but also the teacher training curriculum. We cannot put this in the school curriculum and yet, we have not provided it in the teacher training curriculum. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is important because we take some things for granted. We just this afternoon spoke about this Motion on adolescence health and you The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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