Atanas Manyala

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 101 to 110 of 196.

• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I confirm that as we have started progressing, we will be able to ask the Government in the next future Budgets to make sure that all senior citizens are included in this programme. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Gwassi Constituency has a total of 367 beneficiaries of the Cash Transfer Programme for Older Persons. The details of the beneficiaries are contained in the list which I hereby table. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: (b) So far, only one location in Gwassi Constituency, namely, Kaksingri West, is covered by the programme. This location was identified using the following criteria: Poverty index which indicates that 72 per cent of the location’s population lives below the poverty line; and intra-district, regional/locational balancing. The other beneficiary location is Suba District in Gembe East which is in Mbita Constituency with 392 beneficiaries. The criterion used for identifying beneficiaries of the Cash Transfer Programme to Older Persons has various components: (i) Geographical area factors which include use of Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS) of 2005/2006 data which ranks ... view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this programme was initiated in 2006 as a social protection strategy in Kenya on a pilot basis in three districts. We started with Busia, Nyando, and Thika districts. At that time we started with 100 households. One household would get Kshs1,000. Since then we have managed to upscale this amount of money. As soon as the Treasury gives us more money, we will include more districts. So far, we have increased the number of districts covering 33,000 people. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if there are any such practices as alleged by the Member, we will look into them and act accordingly. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my Ministry will be able to take care of all 268 district as mentioned by the hon. Member although I think they may be more. As we get more money from the Treasury, we will do so. We have asked for more money in our budget for 2011/2012 Financial Year. If we are given that money, we will be able to cover nearly all the districts. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, so far, we have not heard any problem with this money. However, we should be able to institute further checks through our internal audits should there be any problem. So, I am assuring the hon. Member that, so far, the money for the elderly persons has not been misused. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not have the actual amount we have, so far, disbursed. However, I can get this information from our accounting office. We can avail this information to him. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: With regard to his second question, although no formal evaluations have been done on the programme, preliminary results provide strong evidence that the programme is having a very big impact on lives of the beneficiary households. It has enabled them to invest in domestic animals; such as cows, goats, sheep and chicken. They sell those animals during times of hardship to enable them purchase food, pay fees, access health care and meet other basic services. Improvement in household food security is also evident. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my Ministry has tried all it could to make this programme a success story. As I told you, we have requested for more funds from the Treasury because we have realised this programme is very popular among our people. How long this programme will run will depend on the amount of money the Treasury will release to my Ministry. view