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    "id": 302936,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/302936/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kenneth",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 167,
        "legal_name": "Peter Kenneth",
        "slug": "peter-kenneth"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The role of the Commission is to advocate for mainstreaming of poverty concerns in national development, develop poverty eradication strategies and advise the Government on policies and initiatives, conduct research on key poverty issues as well as pilot innovative ideas for poverty eradication and to disseminate the results. The Commission is still important given that the poverty agenda is still one of the top development concerns in the country. The Government has continued to expend resources to address poverty alleviation initiatives. Its financial viabilities is, however, doubtful due to budgetary constraints. (b) The PEC was initially established in the Office of the President. It was transferred to the current Ministry of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 in December, 2002. Since 2006, the Commission has carried out the following initiatives:- (i) piloting of revolving Male Fund through identified anti-poverty initiatives; (ii) piloting small-scale commercial farming through promotion of high value crops; (iii) supporting the development of table banking concepts and training community groups on the concept; (iv) capacity building through induction seminars and other poverty alleviation relevant skill upgrading trainings; (v) supporting formation of district poverty eradication committees as an arm of the Commission at a devolved level; (vi) organizing national and regional stakeholders forums and co-ordinating celebration for observation of international days for eradication of poverty in Kenya by various stakeholders; (vii) monitoring and evaluation of Commission projects and programmes in the districts; (viii) documentation of emerging practices, including “the people can do it” report on the status of the Commission-supported pilot revolving loan funds. (c) In the 2011/2012 Financial Year, the Commission was allocated Kshs63 million for recurrent activities and Kshs100 million for development activities. For the current year, 2012/2013, the Commission has only been allocated Kshs15 million for recurrent activities and no money for development activities."
}