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"content": "education strategies that are very key for that process. This is not an easy process. It is very involving. It involves trying as much as possible to engage the right people at the right time, in the right mood in the right mode so that they can bring to the fore their knowledge. This includes the involvement of our sister county governments, for instance, the County Government of Mombasa will not have concluded its strategic plan without input from Kwale and Kilifi counties. These are the sister counties. The whole idea of bringing in stakeholders and having consultative workshops and bringing in professionals who can put everything into perspective and going through thorough situation analysis, for example, where the county is, what its merits and demerits are; looking at its Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis; and, how they can be applied within a specific county, is very crucial. But more important and for the purposes of this Motion, they will ensure that the objectives and output are SMART. Whatever is seen as output should actually be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound (SMART). I think without being tough, putting adequate standards and being very specific about what is expected, we are just going to have outputs and development plans that are not really tying the loose ends and enabling us to measure the final output. Mr. Speaker, Sir, most of our plans also have aspects of monitoring and evaluation, but this is something that is also variant. So, having a way of really being open and frank about the monitoring and evaluation framework that is put into operation is very, very key. Various players have begun to already get interested in this. I mentioned the Kenya county fact sheets from the Commission on Revenue Allocation, which was put out in June, 2013. There is some more work that has come up from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and KARA, trying to engage counties in terms of coming up with stringent and very clear development plans. Some of the indicators from the county files include health and education outcomes; how many people are fully immunized within the population, malaria burden, tuberculosis cases, for example, within 1,000 years; HIV prevalence et cetera, as key or important indicators. But they must be broadened to be very specific and include everything that a county must include. So, if we look at what is coming from the specific counties, we need to be able, again, to make sure that it is not very generalized. If it is about development, improvement, putting out staff houses and taking a certain number of children to school, let it be very specific, so that it is not general. At the end of the day, it is possible for people to come up and feel that the objects of the county have been attained and the level of practical engagement for the development and measurability within the counties has been enhanced. People can actually come and look at the product and evaluate what that product is all about. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those comments, I beg to move and call upon Prof. Lonyangapuo to second the Motion."
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