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Education and Health

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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PILLARS ISSUES STRATEGIES

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Outdated curricula for technical, vocational education and training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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PILLARS ISSUES STRATEGIES

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,