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    "content": "continue to register new groups without monitoring what the already registered ones have achieved. We should follow up on the group for the next five years so that we see that in their capacity building, where they were yesterday, they are not there today. Yesterday, we were in State House and I was a panelist in the State House Youth Summit. We were considering the billions of shillings that have been disbursed to groups and companies owned by the youth and women. It will shock you that few groups know that they can access Government Procurement Opportunities certificate (AGPO) and register a business. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we boast that we have revolutionalised the issue of community development, if an audit is done, you will be surprised that these groups do not move at all from where they were. There is no meaningful development that can be seen. Part 4 of the Bill provides for the National Steering Committee on Community Self-Help Development. This is meant to be a linkage between the Ministry and the groups because we do not have anywhere to get the groups’ complaints. The Ministry was defensive that it was doing it but there is a gap. This development has not been felt. We have tried to convince the Ministry on this issue because we feel that if this is replicated at the counties, it will help the groups in terms of management, functioning and regulations. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this Bill is simple. Some of the amendments proposed through public participation require an insertion of a new part at Third Reading. One of them is on group mobilization, development and management. This is what we borrowed from the Ministry’s experience and from the stakeholders and the practitioners. When there is a conflict in a group, it should be reported in writing to the assistant registrar of the sub-county before it is received at the national level. The role of the county cannot be over-emphasized. We cannot have groups and exclude the county government and from the Senate point of view, it is not negotiable. We have told the Ministry as much, and I have defended that. We cannot say that because we coordinate groups from Nairobi and few are in Nairobi. Every county must have a role. The County Executive Committee (CECs) members in charge of social development must be involved in that regulation and community mobilization. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, self-help association has been a contentious one. We feel that we will need to call it Group Development and Management. This Bill provides a legal framework to have the groups organised so that they are useful to the people. We cannot continue to pump billions of money without seeing any tangible improvement in terms of their lives. The sector is worth of billions of shillings and it is shocking that it is that big. It can be meaningful if we see success stories from those that have already benefited from it. We must separate the issue of the monies and politicians, I being one of them. I am one of them because when Uwezo Fund and Youth Development Fund are anchored in the Member of Parliament’s office, that MPs will register groups of their supporters so that they can benefit from the monies and deny others who did not support them."
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