take advantage of or completely benefit
from DevCon 2018 being hosted by
County 037. Indeed it seemed to me that
Kisumu County, some 50 kilometres away,
benefitted more.
The reason for this in my view is simple,
Kisumu has better social infrastructure
than its neighbor to the north. Most guests
for instance, chose to seek accommodation
in Kisumu rather than Kakamega Town
either by choice or design.
The concept of Devolution has truly taken
root; County Governments have fought for
their space, scaled for the most part what ap-
peared to be insurmountable odds and are now
firmly embedded in the Kenyan political, so-
cial and economic fabric. Indeed, it has been
mentioned that counties are now the theatres
of the country’s development and journey to-
wards becoming a middle class world economy
by 2030. It is hard to argue with that.
The fact of the matter is that the bucolic
nature that still defines most of our
emerging towns, means that they still
experience significant challenges in
providing the requisite amenities that are expense of social infrastructure. All public and natural resources could be pooled
associated with sustainable urban living.
discourse about 24 hour economies in our and leveraged to develop vibrant urban
counties will remain empty rhetoric if a communities within these blocs.
Devolution has offered counties other balance is not found in developing both
than Nairobi and Mombasa, which already areas commensurately.
Walter Nyabundi is the Research Manager
had significant social and economic
advantages before August 2010, wonderful The emerging economic blocs in different for Loyalty Studies & Special Projects
opportunities to advance themselves.
parts of the country made up of counties at Infotrak Research & Consulting. You
with shared geography, history, culture can commune with him on this or related
The focus it appears however has been on and economic interests could provide a matters via mail at: Walter.Nyabundi@
developing physical infrastructure (which viable answer to the social infrastructure infotrakresearch.com.
is not necessarily a bad thing) at the conundrum. Existing amenities, human
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