Busia Municipality Annual Investment Plan 2018-2019

Abstract

The Kenya Urban Support Programme (KUSP) is a World Bank program intended to: Support the establishment and strengthening of urban governance and management institutions and systems to deliver improved infrastructure and services in municipalities and cities in 45 participating counties in Kenya. Through the provision of grants to counties, for both institutional strengthening and urban infrastructure and services, the programme seeks to incentivize county governments to put the provisions of the UACA (2011) in place and establish appropriate institutional arrangements for urban development. In order to achieve the development objective as stipulated above, the programme has two interlinked components. (i) The urban development grant (UDG) The mainstay of the programme is the urban development grant (UDG) for infrastructure and urban services. Under this component, Busia County government has accessed 101M, for the year 2018/19 after it meet certain minimum conditions and performance standards that were linked to the establishment of urban governance institutions (ii) The urban institutional grant (UIG) To help the county government meet the minimum conditions and performance standards to access the urban development grant, Busia accessed the urban institutional grant.to the tune of 41M. This grant is meant for any activity or investment that, in a sustainable and institutionalised manner, raises the profile of and attention for urban development and urban service delivery.