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    "id": 189939,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/189939/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Shaban",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Special Programmes",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 139,
        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
        "slug": "naomi-shaban"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Western Kenya Community-driven Development and Flood Mitigation Project is an eight-year project financed by the World Bank to the tune of Kshs6.5 billion. The objective of the project is to empower local communities in all the districts in the western region of Kenya, plus two districts in Nyanza Province, that is, Bondo and Siaya, in wealth creating activities through poverty reduction and by reducing the vulnerability to the frequency and costs of the current floods and contribute towards development benefits. The project has three main components, namely, Community-Driven Development, Flood Management, and Implementation Support. The project was declared effective on 6th August, 2007, and the initial activities started immediately thereafter. The key achievements of the project todate are as follows:- Under the Community-driven Development Component, the project has initiated the Participatory Integrated Community Development (PICD), trained 105 members of the District Steering Groups (DSGs), recruited mobile advisory teams, initiated the establishment of the a community foundation, completed evaluation of tenders towards hiring of a consultant to undertake a feasibility study for the repair work of two mini-hydropower projects in Kaimosi and Yala under the locally-identified investments and completed Terms of Reference for the preparation of a Community-Driven Development (CDD) manual. Under the Flood Management Component, the project has contributed towards the completion of repair work of the breached section of the dyke at Makunda in Budalang'i. It has also cleared bushes in the flood plain using local labour and facilitated exchange visit for 16 members of the Budalang'i community to India to learn innovative flood plain management. It has established community flood early warning system, including daily flood watch bulletins. It has developed a catchment management manual and seedlings for catchment in Kuywa, Moiben and Sosian sub-catchments and continuously monitored river gauging stations. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, under implementation support, the Ministry has recruited and deployed all key staff, inducted and initiated training of all project staff, established Project Management Unit (PMU) and District Co-ordination Units (DCUs), and also established and subsequently trained District Steering Groups (DSGs). A more comprehensive report is in the Draft Annual Progress Report for the First Year activities, which is hereby attached. I would want, at this point, to table the First Year Draft Annual Progress Report of 2007/2008."
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