This is the second Plan in a series of five through which the County Integrated Development Plan 2018-2022 shall be implemented. We shall leverage on lessons learnt, experiences gathered and best practices from previous plans to ensure we optimize on results of our second year investment plan.
In order to deliver high quality of life for the people of Nairobi, we have taken a collective commitment to focus our energies towards addressing development issues that bear the highest impact on the socio-economic potential of our people. Indeed, the set of priorities that we present in this plan have been arrived at through an intense and elaborate multi-stakeholder engagement process.
Recognizing that Nairobi City continues to be the preferred choice for many Kenyans seeking access to better economic and education opportunities, world class healthcare services and a secure habitable living environment, we have made deliberate investment choices that will accelerate our pace towards making Nairobi “ The City of Choice for all to invest, work and live in”.
During the plan period, our response to rapid population growth, aging physical infrastructure, environmental degradation, traffic congestion, high poverty incidence, inadequate housing and food insecurity will be an array of integrated development approach anchored on business environment improvement, sustainable investment in transport, water and sewer infrastructure, creating markets, vouching for high quality private sector investments, development of decent and affordable housing, sustaining investment in high quality healthcare services and enhancing access to free & high quality Early Childhood Development Education among other key initiatives.
We are conscious of the enormous resource outlay required for the realization of the goals of this plan. We look forward to reap from reforms we have initiated in public finance management particularly in revenue management. The ongoing internal revenue enhancement drive hinged on better data, tools and systems is expected to be a major catalyst for growth in the County. Further, we are adopting an outward looking partnership strategy as a tool for capital formation for our investment programs. We are deepening our mutual cooperation with the National government through the Nairobi Regeneration Programme for more rapid results.
This plan has laid an elaborate framework for making project choices based on realizable impacts on the lives of the people, potential for employment creation, impact on environment and overall growth prospects. At the same time, we are tightening the project appraisal process to ensure potential project returns and opportunity costs are well understood before initiation.