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    "id": 886994,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "some allocation because of the current drought. Under the National Agricultural and Rural Inclusive Growth Project (NAGRIP), we have Kshs7.2 billion, which is a World Bank credit - an additional conditional allocation. In the 2018/2019 Financial Year, it amounted to Kshs1.05 billion, but it is expected to increase to Kshs7.2 billion in the 2019/2020 Financial Year. This is meant to complement efforts by counties to increase agricultural productivity and profitability of target rural communities in selected counties and to provide immediate and effective response in cases of crisis or emergency. Looking at the situation in Baringo and Turkana, you wonder what the respective counties have done with the Kshs1.05 billion that was allocated in the last financial year under this programme. This year, we are up-scaling that allocation to Kshs7.2 billion. Under the Agricultural Sector Development Support Programme (ASDSP), we have Kshs849.6 million, which is in the second year of implementation strategy of the agricultural policy for the national and county governments. In line with the agricultural policy, the overall goal of ASDSP is to contribute to the transformation of crop, livestock and fishery production into commercially oriented enterprises. The counties ravaged by drought and famine are Baringo and Turkana. There are livestock in those counties and so, they have benefitted from the ASDSP allocation. Under the Drought Resilience Programme in Northern Kenya (DRPNK), an allocation of Kshs350 million has been made. There are areas and counties in northern Kenya that have benefitted from these funds. There are other funds, but I do not want to tire Members by going through the entire list of all these figures. Let me also highlight the Kenya Urban Support Programme, to which we allocated money this year under the Kenya Urban Support Programme–Urban Development Grant to the tune of Kshs11.5 billion. The objective of this additional allocation is to establish and strengthen urban institutions to deliver improved infrastructure and services in participating counties in Kenya. Again, as I said, in the second year of implementation, having started in the 2018/2019 Financial Year, it is meant to ensure provision of capacity building and institutional support to the 47 counties. However, direct financial support will be provided to 45 counties, excluding the two cities of Nairobi and Mombasa. It will also be provided to 59 potentially eligible urban areas within those counties."
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