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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Shebesh",
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        "legal_name": "Rachel Wambui Shebesh",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to support the Motion and congratulate the Chairperson of our Caucus, who has brought this Motion. The purpose of the formation of the Caucus was to bring to prominence the issue of the Millinium Development Goals (MDGs). My colleagues have already spoken on the MDGs relating to Vision 2030. The MDGs are goals which are prioritised. They are goals which measurable, and which have reviews. They give proper information about what they want to achieve. If the Vision 2030 Secretariat and its mother Ministry could borrow a leaf from the MDGs, we would not have a Vision 2030 that would have to become “Vision 2050”. Many of the issues that are detailed in Vision 2030 are the priorities of Kenya, but do we have in place a system of measuring how well we are doing? Do we have a measure of reviewing our progress? How much information are we giving Kenyans? That is why we have brought this Motion here. The MDGs is a bigger issue, but I believe that it should also apply to Vision 2030. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to speak specifically on MDG No.7, on environmental sustainability, because I am the United Nation’s champion for Disaster/Risk Reduction for Africa. One of the issues we have been dealing with is that of climate change and its negative effects on Africa, which brings about disasters. If we were measuring our success, we would realise that in MDG No.7, on environmental sustainability, we need to have pilot projects in this country that would allow development in Kenya without harming the environment. What do I mean? We have things like biogas, solar energy, wind energy and water harvesting. These are things which, if we were doing measurable and reviewing, we would know that MDG No.7 cannot be achieved without projects at the grassroots level to change the way Kenyans access their cooking and lighting fuel. There are different ways of doing things. We cannot have environmental sustainability and achieve MDG No.7 if we do not change the way Kenyans operate at the grassroots level in terms of sustaining their livelihood. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would, therefore, like to ask that our national climate change policy looks again into the issue of disaster/risk reduction and re-work it to ensure that we apply disaster reduction measures at the grassroots level rather than pick policies that are mentioned at the national level but do not impact at the grassroots level. Therefore, I support that we do prioritise and have a review mechanism, and that the Government talks to us not only on the MDGs but also on the progress of Vision 2030. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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