AWARE THAT, the Kenya Vision 2030 was rolled out with the aim of transforming Kenya into …
Motion text
AWARE THAT, the Kenya Vision 2030 was rolled out with the aim of transforming Kenya into a newly industrializing, middle- income country providing a high quality of life to all its citizens by 2030; APPRECIATING THAT, education is a crucial component for accelerating the realisation of the Vision 2030, hence Articles 43(1) and 53(1)(b) of the Constitution entitles every child to the inalienable right to free and compulsory basic education; NOTING THAT, the government provides capitation per child towards free primary education and subsidized secondary and tertiary education, which is supplemented by funds from household contributions; grants; donations; levies; charities; scholarships; and bursaries, including those under Presidency, Ministry of Education, the National Government Constituency Development Fund, the National Government Affirmative Action Fund and county governments; COGNIZANT THAT, despite the constitutional provision on free basic education and the framework for financing education, parents and guardians still bear significant costs for boarding, meals, supplementary learning materials, and infrastructural development, necessitating bursary support for needy students; CONCERNED THAT, the multiplicity of channels and standards involved in education financing contributes to multiple allocations of bursaries and scholarships to single beneficiaries, disadvantaging deserving students; FURTHER CONCERNED THAT, the process of allocation and distribution of bursary funds and the identification of beneficiaries for bursaries and scholarships lacks transparency and clear eligibility criteria, and the application and processing procedures do not provide for established appeal mechanisms for recourse by students denied bursary or scholarship awards; ACKNOWLEDGING THAT, the absence of a comprehensive database of students in basic and higher education hampers the effective and equitable disbursement and utilisation of bursaries and scholarships, and the current funding model, including insufficient government capitation, exacerbates this issue; CONSIDERING THAT, the education financing model as currently designed, particularly the disbursement of bursaries and scholarships, is fragmented, uncoordinated and inefficient, leading to duplication, inconsistencies, lack of accountability, and overlapping mandates among multiple government and private entities, including between the national and county governments, contrary to the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution; DEEPLY CONCERNED THAT, lack of a unified and comprehensive framework on allocation, issuance, administration, coordination, synchronization, management and oversight of education funding, particularly bursaries and scholarships in sync with government capitation not only causes duplication, inconsistencies and unaccountability but also hampers the realisation of free and compulsory basic education in Kenya; APPRECIATING THAT, education funding, including capitation, bursaries and sustainable funding of basic education, university education, and tertiary education and connected purposes; and (xiii) any other attendant matters. c) resolves that the ad hoc Select Committee reports to the House within ninety (90) days after its appointment; d) approves the appointment of the following Members to the adhoc Select Committee– (1) The Hon. Junet Mohamed, EGH, MP; (2) The Hon. Lesuuda, Josephine Naisula, OGW, MP; (3) The Hon. Otucho Mary Emaase, MP; (4) The Hon. Mule, Stephen Mutinda, MP; (5) The Hon. Kururia Elijah Njore Njoroge, MP; (6) The Hon. Siyad, Amina Udgoon, MP; (7) The Hon. Omboko, Milemba Jeremiah, CBS, MP; (8) The Hon. Obara, Eve Akinyi, MP; (9) The Hon. Mukhwana, Titus Khamala, MP; (10) The Hon. (Dr.) Mamwacha, Onchoke Charles, MP; (11) The Hon. Gisairo, Clive Ombane, MP; (12) The Hon. Karitho, Kiili Daniel, MP; (13) The Hon. Caroline Jeptoo Ng’elechei, MP; (14) The Hon. Kiborek, Reuben, MP; (15) The Hon. Kagiri, Jane Wangechi, OGW, MP; (16) The Hon. (Dr.) Adan Keynan, CBS, MP; and (17) The Hon. Amina Mnyazi, MP.
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