COMMISSION ON REVENUE ALLOCATION

Topic: County Government Planning & The Role of Data

Presented By: Joseph Kuria
Director ICT
At the Connected East Africa Summit
31ST MARCH 2015

Devolved Government Statutes That Guide

The Workings Of County Governments
(KENYA)

THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT ACT 2012

THE TRANSITION TO DEVOLVED GOVERNMENTACT 2012

PUBLIC FINANCE MANAGEMENT ACT 2012

THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS ACT 2012

County Government Planning

The PFM 126 provides that every county shall prepare a
development plan in accordance with Article 220(2) of
the Constitution of Kenya for approval by the county
assembly.

The County Governments Act, 2012 (CGA), 104 obligates a county to

develop an integrated plan, designate planning units at all county
administrative levels and promote public participation and engagement
by non state actors in the planning process.

COUNTY PLANNING (objectives)

To ensure harmony between national, county and sub-county

spatial planning requirements.

Facilitate the development of well-balanced system on use of

scarce resources; water, land, ecology, human enterprise,
social Capital, investments etc.

Develop urban and rural centers as integrated areas of

economic and social activity.

Harmonize the development of county communication

systems, infrastructure and related services.

Protect historical and cultural heritage, artefacts and sites

within the county .

TYPES AND PURPOSES OF COUNTY PLANS

County Integrated Development Plans (5 years)

County Sectorial Plans (10 Years)
County Spatial Plans (10 years)
Cities And Urban Centers Plans As Provided For Under The Urban
Areas And Cities Act.
NB
Plans Shall Be Based On Relevant National Policies
Plans Shall Have Attachments Of Maps, Statistics And Other Appropriate
Documents.
They Shall Be Published, Publicized And Available For Public Inspection In
The County

The 14 Functions of county governments

They are Outlined in the Fourth Schedule and entails planning, and
implementation of development projects and programmes at county or
inter-county level in the areas of ;
Agriculture,

Markets,

Tourism,

Health Services,

Cooperative

Trade

Transport,
Roads,
Water,
County Planning
And Development,

Societies,
Housing
Development,
Electricity And Gas
Reticulation,

Development And
Regulation,
Cultural Activities,
Public
Entertainment And
Amenities Etc

The Data Need/ Questions

Education Sector ???

Agriculture Sector ???

what is the number of

Do we need to build ECD

Centers? How many?

extension officer required?

What is the number of

teachers required for ECD?

What incentives should we

implement?

County Headquarters

Health Sector ???

What has been the health

Infrastructure Sector ???

budget?

What are the most sort

after health services?

What % of roads are

passable?

Do we hire, lease or buy

Equipment & Machinery?

How Data informs Planning

Why data matters

More transparency
what is going on?
More accountability
is this acceptable?
More localism
it matters to me, my
family, my locale

More economic/social capital

generates opportunities
More engagement
supports participation to
exploit and improve data
More debate
data for evidenced based
policy

Issue Being Raised on Data accessibility

http://www.UNPAN.org/DPADM/

Health Data Collection and Analysis

Ten Indicator Groups

Demographics

Sentinel Events

Socioeconomic

Infectious Diseases

Maternal and Child

Health
Social and Mental
Health
Physical
Environmental
Health

Health Resource
Availability
Behavioral Risk
Factors
Health Status:
Morbidity/Mortality

Role of Data in County Government Health Sector

Planning
Improved Public Health Administration
Better monitoring and management of public health through
an integrated national Health Information System.
Better control of and monitoring of epidemics and spread of
disease (HIV, Malaria, Swine Flu)
Public Health Information dissemination quickly and fast
training of Health Workers on line
Telemedicine and e-health service through linking of lower
level health centers with higher level referral Hospitals.
Better Health Centre and Level 4& 5 Hospital Management
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Where to get the Answers

Data should be collected and analyzed to create information suitable
for planning and making decisions.
Classification of data;

Primary data
Secondary Data

Where to get Data

Primary data

Public Participation as per the constitution

(Interviews, public forums)

Observation,
Case-studies,
scientific experiments

Where to get data cont

Secondary data

County Registries
Publications,
Reports,

Opportunities for ICT

Move from paper based to Electronic

data

Electronic data management

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Applications
Connectivity for data access and processing
Systems for data collection, analysis and reporting
Hardware (computing, storage, access)

Opportunities for ICT

Land Information management system

Land use mapping and planning

Forest Information data base and information
system

Water and other Natural resource information

systems

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CO-INNOVATION ON EXISTING SYSTEMS

Automated Financial management and Accounting Systems.

Automated Auditing Systems
E-Procurement
E-Recruitment.
E-Inventory and materials management.
Automated HR and Payroll system
Citizen and Business E-Services
County Data Centres

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Mobile
Fax

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P.O Box 1310 -00200 NAIROBI.

254-20-4298000
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254-20-4298251
info@crakenya.org

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Thank You