Counties told to align their CIDPs in line with Medium Term Plan Four and BETA Agenda

 

Cabinet Secretary for ICT and Digital Economy Eliud Owalo address the stakeholders during sensitization workshop on Medium Term Plan Four in Kisumu today-Photo Courtesy

By Dickson Odhiambo

June 4, 2024

Counties told to align their CIDPs in line with Medium Term Plan Four and BETA Agenda

County Governments across the Republic have been told to align their Counties Integrated Development Programs {CIDPs} in line with the Medium Term Plan Four and Bottom Up Transformation Agenda.

Cabinet Secretary in charge of ICT and Digital Economy Eliud Owalo says by doing this it will help the county Governments  to go in tandem with the Bottom Up Transformation Agenda{BETA} and the Medium Term Plan Four that the Kenya Kwanza Government is currently implementing.

Addressing Stakeholders during today dissemination forum on the Medium Term Plan Four in Kisumu, Cabinet Secretary in charge of ICT and Digital Economy Eliud Owalo said the MTP four has identified integral programs.

He says the BETA which is the overall policy document on the basis of which the development agenda and planning framework is anchored, adding that the Medium Term plan four is also anchored into it.

“The BETA agenda entails the thematic areas of agriculture, affordable housing, Universal Health Care, Small and Medium Enterprises, National Super Highways and the Digital economy,” Owalo says.

Owalo says counties are also aligning their CIDPs with the BETA Plan and the Medium Term Plan Four.

“The MTP four itself is also aligned to the EAC Vision 2030, AU Agenda 2063 and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals,” Owalo adds.

Owalo says the ICT is going to play an integral part in this arrangements, adding that there is an implementation framework to implement this.

Owalo has further urged counties to be well conversant with the performance indicators, adding that it is on this basis that will hold the responsibility centers to account at the end of the activity period.

The CS says the Government has begun to digitize all its services so that the members of the public can easily access the services easily within the comfort of their zones.