CHAPTER THREE: COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES AND STRATEGIES
Pillar 3: Education and Health
A) Education
High school dropout rates and low transition to higher levels
Inadequate educational facilities
Inadequate teachers
Inadequate special needs educational facilities
Inadequate recreational facilities
Inadequate bursaries
Lack of a school feeding program
Lack of access to education in informal settlements
Construction of ECDE centers
Collaboration with national government to expand existing primary and secondary schools
Recruitment of qualified ECDE teachers
Provision of adequate instructional/
learning materials in ECDE centres
Construction of special needs facilities in ECDE centres
Collaborate with the private sector, NGOs and development partners to provide additional educational facilities
Improve management and supervision of ECDE centres
Collaborate with the national government, private sector, NGOs and development
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High cost of tertiary education
Underdeveloped sports and arts development
Lack of special needs teachers
Outdated curricula for technical, vocational education and training
Mismatch between skills offered in the university and demands in the labor market
partners to facilitate school feeding program
Enhance measurement and provision of bursaries to the needy and vulnerable groups such as girls and people with disabilities
Improve attendance and retention
Promote vocational and technical institutions to provide necessary skills at post-secondary school level
Construction of recreational facilities
Construction of playgrounds
Nurturing sports and arts talent
Employment of qualified special needs teachers
B) Health Declining health standards and increased incidence and re-emergence of diseases.
Inadequate funding.
High cost of health care.
Poor nutrition
HIV/AIDS pandemics.
Inadequate laboratory services.
Inadequate health facilities.
Inadequate drugs, personnel and equipment.
Inadequate ambulance services.
Inadequate cemetery services/ space.
Dilapidated health facilities.
Unsecure health facilities.
Strengthen preventive and promote health services through; malaria control; expanded programs on immunization; integrated management of childhood illness; control and prevention of environment tally related communicable diseases and encouraging improved nutrition.
Strengthen curative health services through provision of health personnel, drugs and equipment.
Increase total government spending on health
Enhance managerial skills of CHMB and SCHMTs
Implementing school health programmes
Improve cross-sectoral cooperation for health promotion and public health, in the areas of water and sanitation, reproductive health, gender, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, school health, road safety and tobacco control
Provide better access to health care by the poor by dropping charges for treatment of certain diseases.
Improve maintenance of health facilities and equipment.
Construct and equip new health facilities
Prevent and manage HIV /AIDS and STIs through ; promoting safe sex; preventing mother to child transmission; screening of blood and safe use of medical instruments and strengthen county capacity to respond to AIDS epidemic through improved funding , training ,sensitization and awareness campaigns.
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PILLARS ISSUES STRATEGIES
Procure adequate land for cemetery and promote cremation.
Secure health facilities.
Provide adequate ambulance services.
Provide nursing care centres for working population
Enrolment of community in NHIF
NHIF accreditation of public health facilities
Pillar: 4 Environment, Water, Sanitation and Garbage
Poor garbage collection system.
Inadequate sewerage system.
Inadequate water supply.
Illegal water collection.
Inadequate dumping sites.
Inadequate waste collection equipment and trucks.
Lack of public toilets.
Inadequate environmental officers
Air pollution
Water pollution
Noise pollution
Implement solid waste management plan
Develop and enforce environmental standards
Integrate environmental issues in county development planning
Improve garbage collection system.
Increase/ expand sewerage system.
Expand / increase water supply though drilling of boreholes and reduction of unaccounted water loss through rehabilitation and augmentation of water and sewerage system
Prosecute illegal water connectors.
Construct public toilets.
Procure adequate waste collection equipment and trucks.
Recruit more environmental officers.
Provide alternative dumping sites.
Promote recycling of solid waste.
Audit of water and sewerage system.
Conducting an environmental sanitation campaign.
Investing in additional water production and distribution of infrastructure.
Reduction of water loss
Leveraging on technology solid waste management.
Enforcement and policing of environmental regulations
Increase public education and awareness on environment
Pillar 5: Traffic
and City
Transport
Traffic congestion.
Poor traffic management.
Poor drainage system.
Dilapidated roads.
Inadequate access roads
Inadequate street lights and public lighting.
Unnamed roads.
Inadequate bus terminus.
Enactment of traffic management policy.
Installation and regular maintenance of traffic lights.
Installation and maintenance of street lights and public lighting.
Investment in expansion of road infrastructure.
Investment in commuter rail and rapid bus transit system.
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Lack of road bumps and signs.
Inadequate funding
Poor quality roads/ poorly constructed roads.
Inadequate funding.
Non-functioning street lights and public lighting.
Encroachment of road reserves.
Dumping on roads.
Inadequate non-motorized transport facilities.
Slow roads construction works.
Lack of foot bridges.
Lack of bridges
Road accidents
Investment in multi-deck parking infrastructure.
Increase financial resources for road construction and maintenance
Upgrading key road links
Naming of all roads
Encourage contracting of road maintenance to private sector
Relocation of bus terminus outside CBD.
Fast tracking roads construction works
Reduce roads accident.
Construction of drainage system.
Construction of non-motorized transport facilities
Construction of footbridges and bridges
Pillar 6: Jobs,