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    "content": "which, Kshs306 billion is for Recurrent Expenditure while Kshs35.5 billion is earmarked for Development Expenditure. The Government has several targets under the social safety net programmes. These include the training and empowering of persons with disability for self-reliance, providing education support to orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), increasing the number of counties linked to the single registry for national safety net programme from 10 to 25 counties and setting up a national safety network compliance and grievance structure. The BPS 2016 proposes to increase the number of beneficiaries in the cash transfer programmes from 717,000 in 2015/2016 to about 1.7 million in 2018/2019. This will, in effect, increase the coverage of households with older persons from 310,000 to 760,000: Households with all OVCs from 360,000 to 810,000 and persons with severe disability from 45,000 to 137,000. The BPS strategy on environmental conservation and making water accessible is to prioritize implementation of programmes under the growth initiative. The Government will ensure that an environmental impact assessment is undertaken on all projects. To mitigate the impact of climate change, there is planned investment in re-afforestation, roll out of water harvesting and storage in all public institutions and in green energy. The Government further targets the construction and rehabilitation of water pans, an investment in mini dams and mid- size dams to store water for household and agricultural use. The Committee extensively considered the BPS and the medium term debt management strategy. The Committee also sought the views of the National Treasury and the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA). More importantly, the Committee also received recommendations from the various Departmental Committees. After careful consideration and, more importantly, noting the huge budget constrains as reflected in the macro-fiscal framework, the Committee recommends the following:- In the vertical sharing of nationally raised revenue, having considered the submissions of the National Treasury, the CRA, Departmental Committees and other stakeholders, and given the need to enhance fiscal austerity and productivity of public resources and to ensure that the overall fiscal deficit and debt accumulation is within reasonable limits, the Committee recommends that the allocation between the two levels of government be as follows:- (1) That the National Government be allocated Kshs1.099.902 billion. (2) That the counties be allocated gross amounts of Kshs302.198 billion comprising of:- (a) Equitable share allocation amounting to Kshs280.3 billion; (b) Conditional allocation for Level 5 hospitals amounting to Kshs4 billion; (c) Conditional allocation for free maternity healthcare amounting to Kshs4.121 billion; (d) Conditional allocation for compensation of user fees foregone of Kshs0.900 billion; and, (e) Conditional allocation for leasing of medical equipment of Kshs4.5 billion. (3) That counties be allocated Kshs4.307 billion out of the Fuel Levy Fund for road maintenance. (4) Special-purpose-supporting emergency medical services for Lamu and Tana River counties of Kshs0.2 billion. 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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