dc.description.abstract | The County Government Act, 2012 section 104 and 105 provides that County Governments are
responsible for: preparing Integrated Development Plans; ensuring integrated planning within
the county: ensuring linkages between county plans and the national planning framework;
ensuring meaningful engagement of citizens in planning process; ensuring the collection,
collation, storage and updating of data and information suitable for the planning processes; and
ensure that no public funds shall be appropriated outside a planning framework. The counties
are required to prepare their Integrated Development Plans which should be implemented in five
successive years. As per the Ministry of Devolution and Planning Guidelines for Preparation of County
Annual Development Plans (September, 2017), the county planning should be integrated across sectors,
green economy, blue economy and considerations of various actors. More so, the CADP should promote the
Kenya Vision 2030 aspiration of making Kenya a globally competitive and prosperous Nation, with a high
quality of life for all citizens by 2030. Besides the Vision 2030, the plan should be aligned to the SDGs and
the Africa Agenda 2063. Cognizance of this, Tharaka Nithi County Government has developed CADP FY
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