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    "content": "(Mr. Oparanya): Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to make a Ministerial Statement on the Guidelines on the CDF Conditional Grant. This Statement has arisen from Members of Parliament making several inquiries about the conditional grant which was provided for in the financial statement for 2011/2012. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the financial year 2011/2012 the Government set aside conditional grants to the CDF Board amounting to Kshs3.66 billion or Kshs17.442,857 per constituency towards completion of ongoing projects under education, health, water and sanitation. Towards this end, the CDF Board is compiling constituencies report on ongoing, stalled or abandoned projects. In compiling the report, the Board has adopted the following definitions. 1. Ongoing Projects These are projects which are still under implementation for which the Constituencies Development Fund Committee (CDFC) already has funds or intends to allocate more funds in the near future. For that purpose of the conditional grants, ongoing projects shall include additional facilities in any institutions earlier financed by the CDF. 2. Stalled Projects. These are incomplete projects whose implementation has stopped for more than a year but the CDFC intends to continue with their implementation once the issues that led to the stoppage have been resolved. 3. Abandoned Projects. These are incomplete projects whose implementation has stopped for more than a year but there are no immediate plans by the CDFC to continue the implementation. The report once fully compiled will help the Board to analyse project proposals from constituencies with respect to the conditional grant. Meanwhile the Parliamentary Constituency Funds Committee (PCFC) headed by Mr. Ethuro who is here, the Ministry of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 and the Ministry of Finance have agreed on the following guidelines for submission and implementation of projects under the conditional grant:- (i) Allocation Criteria. The funds allocated shall be shared on equal proportions to all constituencies. (ii) Project Identification Criteria. Funds under the conditional grant shall be strictly utilized to complete ongoing, stalled or earlier abandoned projects. The proposed projects shall fall under the education, health, water and sanitation sectors. No new project proposals are eligible for funding under this programme. (iii) Abandoned or Stalled Projects. (a) Constituencies with stalled projects shall be expected to revisit the issues that led to the stoppage of the implementation and initiate mechanisms of resolving them. The agreed mechanism of jump-starting the projects shall be well documented and reports submitted as an attachment to the project proposal under the conditional grant. (b) Estimates of the cost of completing the projects shall be provided as supporting documents to the project proposal. (c) Project proposals shall be submitted in the standard Project Submission Form. Hon. Members can look at the Second and Third Schedule of the CDF (Amendment) Act, 2009. 4. Where there are no abandoned or stalled projects, what happens? Some constituencies have already spend their normal allocation to complete stalled or abandoned projects. In such cases, the constituencies shall be expected to revisit the 2011/2012 proposal with a view to allocating more funds where necessary to ensure that no facility is left incomplete by the end of the current Parliament. Funds may also be applied to additional facilities in institutions financed by the CDF in the past years. 5. Magnitude of allocation: The Constituency Development Fund Committees (CDFCs) must ensure that the amount of money allocated to each project is adequate to complete the targeted project. 6. Project submission procedure: All project proposals shall be discussed and approved by the CDFC before being submitted to the CDF Board. Signed minutes of the CDFC meeting that approves the project proposals shall be annexed to the project proposals submitted to the Board for approval."
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