Kakamega County Sector Plan for Education and Training 2023-2032

Abstract

Kenya adopted a new constitution in 2010 whose major milestone was the changing of the governance structure adopted at independence from a centralized system to a decentralized system comprising of the national government and forty-seven (47) county governments each with specific delegated functions and powers. As per the fourth schedule of the Constitution, 2010, decentralized units were delegated fourteen (14) functions while the national government delegated thirty-five (35) functions. Among the functions allocated to county governments were early child development and education, childcare facilities, village polytechnics, home craft centers and other institutions that train vocational trades and skills. The first County government of Kakamega was formed in 2013 following the general elections held in March of the same year. The County Government established the Department of Education, Science and Technology to; manage vocational training in polytechnics; manage early child development and education in public ECDE centres; implement education support programmes such as infrastructure development in primary and secondary schools and support financing to needy students to enable them access education.