Kirinyaga County Annual Development Plan 2022/2023

Abstract

This Annual Development Plan is prepared in line with the requirements of Section 126 of the Public Finance Management Act 2012, and in accordance with Article 220(2) of the Constitution. This Annual Development Plan contains the strategic priority development programmes/projects that shall be implemented during the financial year 2022-23. Preparation of development plans is the onset of the budgeting process. This plan provides a framework that will guide the implementation of the programmes and projects in the 2022/2023 financial year and to facilitate the realization of the planned county development aspirations as envisaged in the CIDP 2018-2022. The Budget preparation process in the Medium Term, adopted the Program Based Budgeting approach, where each department in the county formulates their own policies and programmes with clear outputs, outcomes as well as performance indicators which are related to the achievement of the program objectives. Focus areas in this plan is to ensure that resources be allocated towards ensuring improved health services, increased accessibility through improved roads infrastructure, increased number of homesteads benefiting from improved provision of water services, accelerated growth in agriculture. Major flagship projects that will continue to be implemented under this plan include among others; provision of state of the art health services, county roads improvement program, town parking areas improvement, Wezesha Kirinyaga Initiative Programs. It is expected that successful implementation of the projects/programmes, contained in this Annual Plan will contribute to better delivery of better services, accelerate economic growth, well as poverty reduction in the county.