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    "content": "the case in Tana River and all the other 27 districts. The DSGs have no funds directly allocated to them as Committees. However, the District Commissioner gets funds from the Ministry of State for Special Programmes for transportation of food and the various district heads of departments get funds from their parent Ministries to run their programmes. There are, therefore, no specific funds for running the affairs of the DSG since its role is mainly that of co-ordination and any specific task that requires funds to be carried out is done by the line departments. Some of the roles or mandates of the DSG are: 1. to carry out food security assessment in the districts; 2. to identify areas and populations affected by food insecurity; 3. develop district contingency plans for disaster management; 4. plan timely provision of relief supplies to needy populations; 5. make recommendations to the Ministry headquarters on organizations that qualify for appointment as lead agencies or co-operating partners to distribute relief food under the PRRO programme; 6. examine and monitor drought trends in the districts with a view to developing strategies that minimize the effects on food security; 7. encourage the development of sustainable food security projects; 8. put in place preparedness/mitigation measures to reduce the impact of disaster on food security; 9. participate in capacity building programmes for disaster management; and 10. liaise with the Ministry headquarters and other stakeholders in matters related to food security. (b) The Protracted Relief and Recovery operations started on 1st May, 2009, and will run for three years ending on 30th April, 2012. The programme is jointly implemented by the Government of Kenya and the World Food Programme. To date, the WFP has given Kshs37 billion but the Kenya Government has given Kshs1 billion worth of foodstuff. The mandate of the two parties is to ensure that the programme runs smoothly for the benefit of the vulnerable populations, who are the beneficiaries, of about 2 million Kenyans. Both parties are expected to contribute resources towards the programme and to jointly develop guidelines, rules and procedures for managing the operation. These have already been done and I will table a copy. The two parties also jointly select lead agencies to handle the distribution in the districts covered by the programme, and in consultation with the districts. The process and guidelines for selection of lead agencies are also annexed to the answer as appendix 1 (c). The three organizations that applied for the job of lead agency in the Tana River were: the Kenya Red Cross Society, the German Agro Action and the Catholic Diocese of Garissa. The recommendations of the DSG were not disregarded by the national team, that is the Ministry together with the Ministry of Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands. However, the team can only uphold the recommendations of the DSGs, if they have followed the set criteria for selection of lead agencies. The DSG only recommends to the headquarters, organization that they consider qualified to be lead agencies, but the headquarters have the final say in the appointment. By and large, however, the recommendations of the DSG are ratified by the headquarters."
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