Bungoma County Spatial Plan 2015-2025

Abstract

The County Spatial Development Plan is an output of a lengthy planning process, incorporating detailed literature review, comprehensive field surveys and robust engagements with local stakeholders through sub-county-specific forums, various meetings with the broad based stakeholders, starting from the households level, stratified groups, political leadership, county executives and MCAs, and technical review forums incorporating both National and County planning technocrats. This County Spatial Development Plan was not prepared in a vacuum but build upon the aspirations of previous integrated visions and resultant plans. The CSDP is prepared within national constitution, policies, legal and institutional context. The 2010 constitution created devolved planning and development units with entrenched public participation in all the process while the Kenya Vison 2030 envisages a sustained average growth of 10% per annum over the next two decades. The planning process took cognizance of other policies and legislations in place as guidelines for spatial development such as the draft National Spatial Plan, National Land Policy 2009, the Industrialization Strategy and the County Integrated Development Plan (2013 -2017). Various Acts within whose regimes this plan has been prepared include the County Government Act, 2012; The Physical Planning Act, Cap 286; Urban Areas and Cities Act; Environment Management and Coordination Act; Water Act; Land Act; National Land Commission Act; Forest Act chapter 385; and the Special Economic Zones Act. Bungoma County Government as an institutions to oversight the implementation and ensure proper coordination of the plan and the main actors for implementation at the County level, with a myriad of challenges including financial, staffing and equipment