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    "id": 82683,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/82683/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mwatela",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 103,
        "legal_name": "Andrew Calist Mwatela",
        "slug": "andrew-mwatela"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The criteria used to identify schools for the regular infrastructure funding for districts is as follows:- Poverty index of the district, permanent classroom gap in the district, permanent toilet gap in the district and non-schooling gap. The four variables are assigned a total weight of ten and distributed as follows:- Poverty index, a weight of four, permanent toilet, a weight of three, permanent classroom, a weight of two and non- schooling gap a weight of one. The District Education Boards then undertake the schools selection process by nominating the neediest schools for inclusion in the programme using the following criteria:- Schools with no permanent classrooms and toilets, schools with inadequate permanent classrooms and toilets, schools with semi-permanent classrooms and toilets; schools where learning takes place outside, and schools with high enrolment and have infrastructure problems. The school infrastructure management units from the headquarters and the district infrastructure co-ordinating teams then evaluate an average of 50 per cent of all schools in the district to verify if the DEB nominated the appropriate schools based on the approved criteria guidelines. The schools infrastructure management units then produce a verification report ranking the schools in terms of the number of complete classrooms, semi-permanent classrooms and permanent classrooms for which the schools are finally ranked. Lastly, the schools infrastructure committee implements the programme in accordance with expenditure guidelines under the guidance and supervision of the area Education Officer and the Ministry of Public Works officers to ensure efficient management and quality. Besides the regular programmes, there are also needy schools whose selection does not follow structured process explained above. These schools also require infrastructure intervention due to emergencies, natural or manmade calamities such as floods, arson, winds, vandalism and post-election violence. For needy schools left out in the regular programme, equity-driven strategy is adopted and the District Education Officers (DEOs) are instructed to advise the schools and other stakeholders, including leaders to apply for one-off infrastructure grants indicating the need and the estimate cost. All the selected schools open infrastructure current account for the infrastructure improvement grant. The funds are disbursed by the schools infrastructure management unit directly to the school infrastructure current account based at a minimum of Kshs300,000. In addition to the annual grants, a one-off additional grant of Kshs1,000,000 can be provided to a school whose infrastructure is extremely poor or has minimal permanent or semi-permanent infrastructure through the existing General Purpose Account (GPA). The signatories of the accounts that are open by the schools are the same signatories as those ones of the free primary education accounts."
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