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    "content": "into different places to call them Level 5, what is it that we are spending on and is it really decongesting the few referral hospitals that we have? We should commend the Committee for ensuring that the conditional funds do not hold the equitable revenue share. For me, the entire thing around resource allocation based on the equitable share, percentages of the equitable share of the most recent audited revenue and conditional allocations or percentage of most recent audited revenue does not seem to add up. It could be my mathematics that is not good and we also have a lapse of a few years, 2013/2014, but 68 per cent does not add up. This is one of the things that I was concerned about and I was trying to internalize. We have to make sure that the experts convince us that these percentages are factual. Right now from where I stand and from my own calculations at the back of my envelope, they seem not to add up but I do not wish to say that they are not factual. We probably need to ensure that the percentage of Kshs58.7 billion or 6.3 per cent of the most recent audited revenue are factual as we stand here and talk. The other thing that I found interesting in this is entire conditional funding from donors---. I know that we have the European Union (EU) instrument for devolution, International Development Association (IDA) water and sanitation development projects, the World Bank projects, Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) universal healthcare for developed systems projects but there is a lot of fragmented amounts of money being managed by different entities. I wonder if this House understands how all these amounts add up in their counties or do we just list them down without knowing where all these different donor funds are going. Is our oversight just restricted to the revenue collected by the country or do we have jurisdiction and mandate over all the other conditional funding that is going on? If so, what is the framework for this House to ensure that we oversight it well and ensure that it really contributes to the bigger picture and objective of devolution as stipulated by the objectives for all these funds. Turkana County invited me and a few others and they told us that they would want to have all these funds executed from one pot and I think that it is a fantastic idea. I do not know if we have legislation or frameworks that would help our donors and partners to coordinate their funding and their effort so as to ensure that these funding and efforts are actually serving the priorities that have been set out by the counties and not priorities of the donors. While we appreciate the donor funding and the support we receive from them, they must be owned by the counties and they must contribute the priorities that have been set by the counties for them to bring the impact that we seek. As this House, we probably need certain pieces of legislation that streamline these additional and conditional funds that we are reflecting in our expenditure and Division of Revenue Bill. I know that there is an annex that sort of lays out a framework for managing additional conditional allocations and I know the responsibilities that have been given to certain areas of the counties and National Government but I do not see a specific role that has been given to the Senate. I am not sure if I am the one who has not seen it, hence the reason why I was a bit nervous about some of the contributions that I was going to make. That said, this House should not only look at the revenues that the country is collecting The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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