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 2020/21. | en_US |