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    "id": 961091,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "The following are some of the programs that we talked about: We talked about social protection response that is cash transfers, hunger response interventions, school feeding program, the hunger safety nets and fertiliser cost reduction programs. Please do let me know when ten minutes are over. We also talked of the managed equipment services under health security response because you do not go out there with all your dirty linen. When you are out there, we leave some of our issues here and talk of what we are working on even as we sort out the issues. We also talked of the Linda Mama Program, the menstrual health management program and the Beyond Zero Initiative. The First Lady had a side event which she headlined Beyond Zero. On the education response, we talked of the Higher Education Loans Board, the presidential secondary schools bursary and private sector scholarships. Under the water and sanitation response, we talked of the national open defecation free Kenya 2020 campaign, the community led total sanitation and the Kenya integrated water sanitation and hygiene program. We got standing ovation, as a country, when we talked of the social protection and peace response. In that response, we talked of the Uwezo Fund Women Enterprise Fund, the Uwiano Platform for Peace and Huduma centres. On infrastructure response, we talked of the energy and information communication technology and the rural electrification which majorly benefits women in this country. It was clear from this that Kenya has made steady progress in securing income security for vulnerable and poor members of the society. I was a panellist during the side event on social protection that was on transformation and the theme was “Transforming the Social Economic Landscape for Women, Girls and other Vulnerable Groups”. I made a presentation on the role of Kenyan Senate in Accelerating Social Protection for Women and Girls. I presented the legislative oversight and other interventions that Members of the Senate, some of whom are in the Senate as I speak, have been able to embark on in accelerating social protection for women and girls. As Senators, we all want to see increased allocation to counties because that will help the counties to have better infrastructural development which will see women, girls and boys have better access to hospitals, schools and markets which will reduce poverty and open up more opportunities for women. I also spoke to the issue of conditional grants to Level 5 hospitals and leasing of medical equipment. We opined that if this is well managed, it will ensure that women in our counties have better maternity services and reduced child mortality. Madam Temporary Speaker, on the legislative front, I raised the Bills that Senators considered which were geared towards ensuring social protection. Some of the Bills that I spoke about are the Food Security Bill that we have dealt with, the Warehouse Receipt Systems Bill and the County Early Childhood Education Bill. If, for example, the provisions of the County Early Childhood Education Bill are implemented, women will have an opportunity to take their children to educational centres and free up themselves to get involved in economic activities as caregivers and take care of the very young babies. Yesterday we had a situation in the National Assembly that was very uncalled for, where a female legislator was ejected from the precincts of the House for coming with a The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
}