Tharaka Nithi County Annual Development Plan 2020/2021

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.