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    "id": 1582405,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1582405/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sigor, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Lochakapong",
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    "content": "Kenya has hosted refugees and asylum seekers from the Great Lakes region, East Africa and the whole of Africa for over three decades. The country remains the 5th largest refugee- hosting country in Africa and the 13th largest asylum country in the world. The Government of Kenya, in collaboration with partners, has been taking concrete steps to improve the conditions of host communities and refugees. In line with the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) 2018 and its Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework, Shirika Plan builds on the success of past and ongoing programmes. In 2022, the Government pronounced its intention to strengthen integration through socio-economic inclusion of host communities and refugees through a strategy called Marshall Plan, which was later renamed Shirika Plan. Shirika is a multi-year plan that aims to enhance socio-economic inclusion for host communities and refugees for them to be self-reliant and resilient. The Plan is in line with the Constitution of Kenya, the Refugees Act, 2021, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Vision 2030, the Medium-Term Plan IV and the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA). The Plan builds on the success of Kalobeyei Integrated Socio-Economic Development Plan, Phases I and II, and Garissa Integrated Socio-Economic Plan. Shirika Plan was officially launched on 28th March 2025 by His Excellency President William Ruto. It is an initiative to turn the country’s two refugee camps in Dadaab and Kakuma into self-reliant, integrated settlements, allowing refugees and host communities to live and work side-by-side and access donor and Government services alike. This comes on the back of a commitment made through the GCR 2018, to which Kenya is a party. Shirika Plan has been lauded as a major step forward in securing durable solutions for Kenya’s over 800,000 refugees and asylum seekers. Finding solutions to forced displacement, many of the refugees having lived in Kenya since the 1990s, has become even more pressing in the wake of the recent US aid cuts, which threaten the livelihoods of refugees receiving material assistance from donors."
}