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    "id": 457860,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/457860/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Thank you hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was on the second objective of the Uwezo Fund. I was saying that the second objective is meant to generate gainful self-employment for the youth and women. Thirdly, it is also meant to model an alternative framework in funding community-driven development. The Uwezo Fund will employ the principle of table banking which is what is known locally at the grassroots level as chama. Also, the revolving Fund will create a unique blend of financing for the youth groups and will be disbursed at the constituency level; modelled along the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) framework. This will enable the youth and women to access the Fund at the local level, thereby reducing the transaction costs that would have been otherwise, incurred. The Uwezo Fund will operate in two ways or in several structures. One, it will have a structure called the Uwezo Fund Oversight Board. This is primarily meant to provide overall management design and oversight of the Fund. The Board will be supported by a secretariat at the national level. Another structure is the Ministry responsible for the time being for the youth and women affairs; which will facilitate and oversee the operation of the Uwezo Fund Oversight Board, in its implementation of the Uwezo Fund. As a Ministry, this will specifically be responsible for capacity building of the Uwezo Fund recipients; on what they call table banking and business entrepreneurship; public procurement and other business development areas. The third structure is Constituency Uwezo Fund Management Committee which will be modelled along the CDF framework. The role of this committee shall be to facilitate the establishment of Uwezo Fund management to manage the Fund at the constituency level. The following will be the members of the Constituency Uwezo Fund management committee: (i) The sub-county commissioner or his representative. (ii) The sub-county development officer or his representative. (iii) The sub-county accountant responsible for national Government operations within the constituency."
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