Esther Murugi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Question I am answering is about women Enterprise Fund and not gender enterprise fund. Men have title deeds and they can borrow from banks. Women do not have title deeds. That is why there is a Women Enterprise Fund. view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member can come to our office so that we can give him a volunteer officer who can reach the women who are not able to be reached by my officers. view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the last time I was asked this question, I requested the Member of Parliament to form savings and credit co-operative societies (saccos) because we think saccos have a bigger outreach. But, again, you cannot form a sacco today and come tomorrow for money from the Women Enterprise Fund. view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: I also want to say that from the North Eastern Province, which is one of the areas we had classified as not accessing the money, we did not get even a single application for the volunteer scheme. So, short of me going to live there, I have no idea of what you want me to do. view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, a sacco has to be operational. There are conditions. You cannot form a sacco today and come for the money when you have not shown your ability to even lend. So, you have to have your own money. You cannot just form a sacco and expect to be given money from the Women Enterprise Fund the following day to disburse. You have to show that you are capable of disbursing the funds. Otherwise, you could just run away with it. view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we realise that, maybe, our officers were not having the outreach that we wanted. That is why we advertised for volunteers to help us do the outreach as well as Members of Parliament. In certain areas where the volunteers have already started working, and where Members of Parliament are active, we are doing very well. view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we realise that any micro-financier is lending at interest rates above 8 per cent, we no longer partner with them. That has been the order of the day. All the micro-financiers we are partnering with today are actually financing at 8 per cent. We also have modalities of asking the micro-financiers to go to the field and evaluate why some women are not repaying back the money, and encourage view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: them to give women some grace period because we always give them three months grace period. However, we are also saying that if women are not able to borrow from the micro-financiers, perhaps they should concentrate much more on the Constituency Women Enterprise Fund, which is interest-free. view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry has had a big handicap in terms of staff employment and mobility but this year, Treasury has facilitated the employment of additional staff. They have also given us extra funding for purchase of motor vehicles and motorcycles. So, you will see a bigger outreach within the next few months. view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is difficult to do this through the intermediaries because some areas do not have micro-financiers. So, it is difficult to do this equally in all the areas. That is why we were saying that Members of Parliament should try and form saccos, so that we can pass the money through those saccos. However, every constituency has been allocated Kshs2 million of the Women Enterprise Fund. Additional money can be accessed through the available financial intermediaries. Where there are no intermediaries, I am sorry, there is not much we can do. view