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    "content": "I now move to strengthening devolution and regional development. The decentralisation of service delivery and resources through devolution has had a profound effect on the lives of our people at the grassroots level. As witnessed across the country in the past two years of devolution, local development is gaining traction as counties are becoming the new centres for economic activity. To lock in and sustain those gains, we will continue to support county governments through increased allocation of shareable revenue so as to ensure that devolution achieves the objective of better service delivery and rapid local economic development, as well as job creation in line with our Vision 2030. Therefore, Parliament has allocated to county governments Kshs259.7 billion as shareable revenue following consultations with the Inter-Governmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC) comprising the Council of Governors (CoG), the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) and the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC). In addition, to further support the implementation of the devolved system of Government, Kshs27.3 billion has been set aside as additional conditional allocation to counties in the 2015/2016 Financial Year as follows:- (1) Kshs4.3 billion as conditional grant for Free Maternal Healthcare; (2) Kshs4.5 billion as conditional grant for leasing medical equipment; (3) Kshs3.6 billion as conditional grant for Level 5 hospitals. (4) Kshs900 million as conditional grants to compensate county health facilities for user-fees foregone. (5) Kshs3.3 billion as conditional grants for maintenance of roads from the Road Maintenance Fuel Levy Fund; and (6) Kshs.10.7 billion as conditional allocations from Development Partners’ loans and grants. This brings the total allocation to county governments to Kshs287 billion, which is equivalent to 37 per cent of the most recent audited revenues approved by the National Assembly, which amounted to Kshs776.6 billion in the 2012/2013 Financial Year. This is more than twice the mandated constitutional threshold of not less than 15 per cent. In addition, I have allocated Kshs35.2 billion to the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) kitty to fund only national Government functions such as education and security at the constituency level. In addition, I have allocated Kshs6 billion for the Equalisation Fund to cater for the backlog and allocation for the 2015/2016 Financial The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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