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"speaker_name": "Mr. Oparanya",
"speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030",
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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair to enable me introduce debate on Vote 06, Ministry of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 plays a key and strategic role in the overall structure of the Government. Its mandate is to facilitate and co-ordinate the national development planning process and to provide leadership in national economic policy management. The core functions of the Ministry as outlined in the 2842 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 21, 2008 Presidential Circular No.1 of May, 2008, includes the following:- (i) National development planning; (ii) Co-ordination of Constituency Development Fund; (iii) Monitoring and evaluation of economic trends and policy; (iv) Kenya National Bureau of Statistics; (v) National census and housing survey; (vi) National Co-ordinating Agency for Population and Development; (vii) Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis; (viii) Economic Commission for Africa; (ix) New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD); (x) District Focus Strategy for Rural Development; (xi) Poverty Eradication Commission; (xii) Implementation of Vision 2030; (xiii) Monitoring of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); and, (xiv) The Africa Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP). Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry's mission statement is:- \"To provide effective leadership and co-ordination in the planning, policy formulation and tracking results for a globally competitive and prosperous nation. To accomplish that, my Ministry has been, and continues to pursue the following strategic objectives:- (a) Improving policy formulation, co-ordination and implementation; (b) Improving the effectiveness of public expenditure management; (c) Improving the capacity of national statistical system; (d) Development and implementation of sound population management policy; (e) Strengthening the national monitoring and evaluation system; (f) Improving and strengthening human resource management and development; (g) Aligning the Ministry's ICT framework to e-government strategy and co-ordinating implementation of programmes geared towards the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); (h) Co-ordination of Constituencies Development Fund (CDF); and, (i) Co-ordination of the implementation of the Vision 2030. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in 2007/2008 Financial Year my Ministry had a net approved Budget of Kshs1,888,979,760 for Recurrent Expenditure and Kshs1,053,782,630 for Development Expenditure. My Ministry applied the approved funds in the following main areas:- (i) Development of the Vision 2030 and its first medium-term plan 2008 and 2012 both of which were recently launched by His Excellency the President and the Right Honourable Prime Minister. (ii) Implementation of various core poverty programmes, that is, the Central Kenya Dry Areas Project and the Southern Nyanza Community Development Programme. (iii) Implementation of other programmes and projects undertaken by the directorate, including preparation for the 2009 population and housing census. (iv) Development and launch of the national integrated monitoring and evaluation system. In the financial year 2008/2009, the Ministry intends to spend a gross total of Kshs15,285,780,030 out of which Kshs2,171,000,000 is under Recurrent Vote and Kshs13,114,780,030 under Development Vote. Under the Recurrent Expenditure, I propose to spend Kshs2,171,000,000 to finance the following projects:- (i) Co-ordination of development planning at district level, Kshs474,294,185. (ii) Administrative Service Programme, Kshs346,085,188. October 21, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2843 (iii) Co-ordination of policy formulation and implementation, Kshs410,210,944. (iv) Community Development Programme, Kshs60,410,683. (v) Statistical services, Kshs880 million. Mr. Speaker, Sir, under the Development Vote, I propose to spend Kshs13,114,780,030 on the following major programmes and projects:- (1) CDF, Kshs10.1 billion. (2) Southern Nyanza Community Development Programme, Kshs241,013,059. (3) Central Kenya Dry Areas Project, Kshs272,794,816. (4) Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, Kshs700,487,400. (5) Support to the Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), Kshs98 million. (6) Support to the National Co-ordinating Agency for Population Development, Kshs199,112,000. In addition, EEC/EDF will directly support and pay for various community development programmes to the tune of Kshs518,601,522 while a consortium of donors will also fund directly the Special Environmental Management Programme for Kshs678,387,388. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as already noted, the Ministry has now added responsibility of overseeing the CDF activities and co-ordination and implementation of the Vision 2030. With regard to these two programmes, the Ministry has operationalised the CDF Board and is in the process of establishing and operationalising the Vision Delivery Secretariat which will cost Kshs123,935,000 under both Recurrent Expenditure and Development Expenditure. The Ministry will also continue with the preparation for the 2009 population and housing census which is budgeted for under the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. I would like to thank the following development partners for supporting the Ministry in undertaking various projects and programmes:- (i) The EEC which is supporting directly core poverty programmes through the Community Development Trust Fund (CDTF). (ii) Finnish Government and the UNDP which are supporting the MDGs. (iii) IFAD which is supporting the Central Kenya Dry Areas Project and the Southern Nyanza Community Development Programme. (iv) DFID and the World Bank which are supporting the start gap and monetary and evaluation activities. Mr. Speaker, therefore, I beg to request the House to consider and approve a net sum of Kshs13,552,935,700 to finance both Recurrent and Development Expenditure for 2008/2009 for my Ministry. I beg to move and request the Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports to second the Motion."
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