Press Statement: Makueni County Economic Blueprint
MAKUENI COUNTY BLUEPRINT VALIDATION MEETING
Together with the regional economic blueprint technical team, I led leaders from across the county to validate the economic plan.
In the development of the bottom up economic blueprint of Makueni County, the Makueni people have held several meetings to discuss the priority sectors of development and ensure that the document is a reflection of the development needs of Makueni.
This meeting has brought together more than 100 participants drawn from the 30 wards of the county to validate the blueprint and fill in the missing gaps.
The core objective of the meeting was to develop an economic blueprint that will be adopted and consolidated as part the South Eastern Region development plan whose vision is to socio-economically transform Kenya, under the leadership of the 5th President of the Republic of Kenya, William Samoei Ruto.
The members of the public went through the priority economic sectors and on consensus agreed on areas that they would like to be given priority the government that will come to power in August, 2022.
The economic sectors are; Water, Agriculture, Infrastructure, Energy, Education, ICT and Sports, SMES, Health and Mining and Minerals.
The process of involving the public in identifying their areas of economic priority is informed by the need for a paradigm-shift from the trickle-down economic Model to the Bottom-up Economic development approach which aims to facilitate decentralization of resources to the base of the pyramid.
The county just like the rest of the country is faced by high unemployment rate of our youth, high cost of living, declining incomes high taxation levels and effect of ballooning public debt.
The areas that we have identified will therefore promote growth of industries through value chain development, creation of jobs for our youth, reduction of the high cost of living, and improvement of the social welfare of the people of Makueni.
Agriculture remains the sector w
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