Machakos County Topical Investment Plans 2015: Digital Topographic Mapping and Preparation of Integrated Strategic Urban Development Plan for Cluster III Towns

Abstract

Physical planning in the past has suffered from many deficiencies, of which the most important ones were the inflexibility of the instrument and the difficulties of updating it; the other has been the split between planning and implementation. Capital Investment Plans (CIPs) are intended to help bridge this gap by providing practical and realistic guidance regarding the next steps in implementing the capital development aspects of the plan. In order to be realistic CIPs must have two very important qualities. The first is to be affordable within current budgetary conditions. The second is to respond to real priorities in terms of the expectations of the stakeholders and technical needs of the town as conceived by the staff. There is a potential for the priorities of the stakeholders and technical experts to be different: this report addresses this problem.