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    "id": 875885,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "good. The recommendations given are clear and easy to work on. They are supported by appropriate Acts and laws. This is an extremely good Report. We must support it. The NG-CDF deserves a Committee like this. This is an extremely important Fund. In my view, this is probably the only Fund that meets the requirement of public involvement in public affairs. In this Fund, there is involvement of the people right from the time of project identification to the time of project implementation. When we are identifying projects and doing public participation, I am often amazed at how well the people are aware of what their needs are and how they are consistent from year to year. They will say, “last year, we gave this request but it was not responded to. So this year, we would like it be done.” That indicates that the people are involved, they appreciate and understand this Fund. In implementation, the provision of project management committee is extremely important element in this Fund. We find that people are involved in procurement. In our constituency where the project management committees are involved in procurement, you never get complaints because they are part and parcel of procuring the contractors who carry out the project. Their involvement in monitoring has been extremely useful. Involvement of the project management committee is such that it is easy to stop any attempts either by the committee member himself or even by the contractors to interfere with the project or the finances. That in my view has proved extremely important. Even in supervision, I have always found that if a project is not going on well, the committee members will come out and say when it is not going on well. I have found that involvement useful. Even in the authorisation of payment, you will find committee members saying they cannot pay because the project has not been implemented to their satisfaction. If we could do this in all other projects, we would not have open fields being paid for as dams. I have found this is as an extremely useful committee."
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