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    "content": "framework beginning with baseline studies, bringing professionals to the fore and experts to talk to stakeholders to see that the development agenda is clear. Later, I will talk about the indicators because some counties have already started coming up with their integrated plans. However, if you look at some plans, you will find that some of them are much generalised in some areas. For example, when you talk about improvement of road structures or improvement in school enrolment, what does that improvement entail? How will we measure and determine, five years down the line, that there has been improvement? The county sheet files give indicators for development across each of the 47 counties. They state where each county is at the moment. Those are the indicators that should be used over and over again. I remember when we had the breakfast meeting with the Vision 2030 personnel that these are some of the issues that we raised with them. We asked them specifically what their indicators were and their levels of measurability for some development agenda that they were putting across. For some development agendas, we could not get complete clear indicators. Without those clear indicators, it would be very difficult for us to move on. For example, even as reports are transmitted to county assemblies, on what basis will they evaluate the reports to see whether there have been achievements? It becomes very difficult. We need to have an objective measure so that at the end of the day, we know that we were at point “A” and we have now moved to point “B” and we are expecting to move to point “C.” If we are not at point “C”, we should explain why we have not moved on as it was required. The expectation that there would be output that is measurable has been captured at various areas even in the Constitution. Article 222 says that the national Legislation shall prescribe the structure of development plans and budgets of counties and come up with various legislations that are aimed at ensuring that the end product is objective. 222. (1) “If the Appropriation Act for a financial year has not been assented to, or is not likely to be assented to, by the beginning of that financial year, the National Assembly may authorise the withdrawal of money from the Consolidated Fund. (2) Money withdrawn under clause (1) shall— ( a ) be for the purpose of meeting expenditure necessary to carry on the services of the national government during that year until such time as the Appropriation Act is assented to; ( b ) not exceed in total one-half of the amount included in the estimates of expenditure for that year that have been tabled in the National Assembly; and ( c ) be included, under separate votes for the several services in respect of which they were withdrawn, in the Appropriation Act.” This is with regard to the County Governments Act, the Public Finance and Management Act, Intergovernmental Relations Act and The County Government Act, among others. As I alluded, therefore, this is something that is already happening. The County Governments Act of 2012 stipulates that each county must have a County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP). Counties are meant to develop that plan. I have been looking at the papers in the last few months. Various counties have been placing The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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