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    "id": 976459,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Buuri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri",
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        "legal_name": "Mugambi Murwithania Rindikiri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Report. But as many speakers have said, one of the factors affecting the operation and performance of the Uwezo Fund is lack of financial support to the officers and the committees. Buuri Constituency is one of the largest beneficiaries of the Fund. Our collection rate is 97 per cent. We have also been able to bring new groups on board. However, you always find that where regulations are not properly formulated, given the fact that some groups undertake agricultural-based activities, when there is drought in some areas, they are not able to perform their activities and the loan repayment is affected. Therefore, some of the things the Uwezo Fund needs to do is to have a mitigating strategy. Sometimes death occurs among the group members, there is crop failure or diseases. We need to have an insurance arrangement to insure the risks that affect the members and prevent them from repaying the loan. Older groups are able to repay, but new ones cannot get loans until the older ones have repaid their loans. There should be no relationship between the already existing groups and new groups, such that new groups cannot be given money until the older ones have repaid the loans fully. Even if they put 50 per cent as the threshold, they do not strictly follow it. They insist that it must be over 90 per cent. Hon. Speaker, one of the things the Fund needs to consider is having men involved in some of the groups. Many men are willing to apply for the loans, but because of the requirement that the members must be women and PWDs, they get disadvantaged. So, in as much as we support the performance of the Uwezo Fund, we should have a change in the regulations that allow men to apply for loans from the Fund. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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