PS urges coordinated state efforts to drive BETA goals

PATRICK NYAKUNDI-KNA 

There is a need for the two levels of government to make targeted interventions, as envisaged in Vision 2030, to actualize the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).

Devolution PS Michael Lenasalon said the interventions should be well coordinated under the Intergovernmental Relations Act, which provides an administrative framework for the coordination and enhancement of cooperation between the national and county governments to ensure equitable development across the country.

Lenasalon made the remarks in Wote, Makueni, while closing a four-day training workshop for 24 Trainers of Trainers (ToTs) drawn from four counties in the Eastern, North Eastern, Coast, and Nairobi regions.

The PS explained that the workshop is going to generate champions of Project Management Committees (PMCs) in both levels of government. “

The PMCs are aimed at facilitating and ensuring sustainability of projects committees concept in implementation of devolution. It is evident that pioneered community-led oversight structures have made a positive impact on the ground,” Lenasalon said.

He urged the ToTs to cascade the same knowledge they have learnt to the community level and ensure they establish and operationalize PMCs in each county so that projects are monitored and completed as per specifications.

This is the second workshop after a similar one in Homabay County, where 23 ToTs were trained.

Part of the learning include modalities like norms and standards that unify implementation of projects, peer to peer learning and exchange of visits.