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    "content": "opportunities for youth, women and persons with disability`, which report shall contain details of the procuring entities and how they have complied with the provisions of this section. (c) by renumbering the existing subclause (10) as subclause (15). Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairmen, the intention of these amendments is to ensure, first of all, at this point that the youth, women and people with disability are able to access 30 per cent procurement preferences as decreed by Government. Specifically, I will go to the sub-clause which states that we want to insert the word “spend” after the word “procurement” and the words “women and persons with disabilities” after the word “youth” so that it is not just 30 per cent contracts of procurement but 30 per cent of the value, and so that if a procurement entity is getting Kshs100 billion, Kshs30 billion must be for the youth, women and people with disability. Clause 3 (b) is to ensure that if any procuring entity pays out money to an enterprise owned by youth, women or people with disability, that money is spread out to an account where the mandatory signatory is a youth, or a woman or a person with disability, as the case may be to prevent the mischief where you find some unscrupulous business people are registering businesses on behalf of young people, but they are the only ones who are benefitting. Therefore, any money paid out to these companies, the procuring entity must ensure that the account into which they are paying the money is controlled by the desired group, be it the youth, women or persons living with disability. Sub-clause (11) is to make sure that we monitor. The Chair will realize that we might have a good legislation, but if there is no monitoring and evaluation, young people, the women and the people with disability may not benefit from these provisions. So, Sub-clause (11) says that the procuring entities at the national and county level shall make a quarterly report to the Public Procurement and Oversight Authority (PPOA). The details of that report are given in Sub-clause (12) that the report shall certify that they have complied with the provisions of this section. Then the report shall provide details to indicate the young people, women and people with disabilities whose goods and services have been procured by the procuring entities and who have benefitted. The value of those contracts also must be shown, so that we can know that, indeed, it is 30 per cent. Then 13 provides that the PPOA must make a quarterly report to Parliament and that report should be made through the Committee that is responsible for equalization of opportunities for the youth, women and people with disabilities, which is the Joint Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity. So that as Parliament we can then be able to bring to task all procuring entities, be they national Government or otherwise. You realize that this is a clause that also goes to the Senate because also the county governments must comply with these provisions. Finally, Clause 3(c) is just renumbering the existing sub-clause 10 to be sub clause 15 because of the amendments made earlier."
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