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    "id": 94420,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kingi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for East African Community",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 27,
        "legal_name": "Amason Jeffah Kingi",
        "slug": "amason-kingi"
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    "content": "Indeed, it is an honour for me to present to this House the 2010/2011 Budget Estimates for the Ministry of East African Community under Vote 24. As envisaged in Vision 2030, regional integration is one of the key areas of economic development of our country. During the first medium-term plan 2008-2012 of Vision 2030, my Ministry is expected to play a key role in deepening and widening East African integration for the improved livelihoods and sustainable development of our country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry’s mission is to facilitate, co- ordinate and oversee the development, monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of EAC policies, projects and programmes for effective integration and promote partnership, liaison and maintain linkages with all the stakeholders on the EAC matters for maximized benefits. In the Financial Year 2009/2010, my Ministry was allocated a total of Kshs1,013,711,570. Of this amount, the total allocation of Kshs922,811,570 was allocated for Recurrent Vote. In the same year, the Ministry was allocated Kshs90,900,000 for Development Vote. Of this Vote, development partners contributed Kshs65,400,000 while the Government of Kenya (GoK) contributed Kshs25,500,000. My Ministry received only Kshs14,125,230 over and above the last financial year’s Budget, indicating only a minimal growth in the Budget. Some of the major achievements of the Ministry in the last financial year include the following:- (i) Review of the organization structure, functional and staff establishment that led to the recruitment of 35 new integration offices at various levels. (ii) Successively co-ordination of the negotiations, signing and ratification of the Common Market Protocol (CMP) which came into effect on 1st July, 2010. (iii)We undertook national sensitization campaign on the EAC integration process and the common market through development and launching of the Ministry’ communication strategy and policy handout. (iv) Sensitizing over 30 multiple stakeholders across the country. (v) Rolling out CMP awareness campaign. (vi) Raising the profile and the knowledge of EAC matters in the country. (vii) We also undertook a detailed audit of the national laws and their compliance to the common market and made recommendations for amendments of national laws to align them to the CMP. (viii) We conducted the second customer satisfaction survey, ISO certification process is also in progress. (ix) We also undertook activities geared towards elimination of non-tariff barriers through consultative meetings between MTBs steering committee and the Office of the Prime Minister and the roadblocks were reduced by 75 per cent along the northern corridor. (x) We also initiated baseline survey for regional integration centres and monitored and evaluated visits carried out along the border posts."
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