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    "content": "and they shall include various standards as to whether or not the county has allocated tasks and responsibilities to the various levels of its own government. It will also indicate whether or not it has ensured sufficient human and financial resources for the implementation of these rights, whether or not those county governments have been able to facilitate the realization of the rights in question, whether or not its programme is reasonable in its conceptualization and implementation, whether or not its plan or programme is balanced and flexible enough among other things. It will indicate whether you respond to unforeseeable circumstances, whether or not its plan includes or excludes a significant segment of the populace leading to unfair discrimination, whether or not it balances short, medium and long term needs, whether or not it has sufficient safety nets such as cash transfers for vulnerable groups and others who seek social assistance, and whether or not its plan or programme responds to the needs of the vulnerable and those in crisis situations. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I think this Bill intends to fill in that gap, and as we proceed with the debate of this Bill, and as I respond, I will be able to speak to a few more areas that this Bill provides for. In the interim, I want to urge my fellow Senators to support this Bill because it is a landmark. There is just one area that I had forgotten with respect to Section 14 of this Bill, that once the National Commission on Human Rights makes recommendations, and these recommendations are then sent to the Senate, the National Assembly, County assemblies, County Revenue Allocation, The Inter-governmental Budget and Economic Council Commission, and disseminated to members of public. Those recommendations, once adopted by the Houses of Senate and county assemblies, they shall be binding to counties to effect in their next circle of planning or in their next strategic plans to the realisation of economic and social rights. I am very grateful to all those Senators who helped me develop this Bill, I wish to move this Bill and ask Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. to second."
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