Relevant Frameworks

• Kenya Vision 2030
  ○ Third Medium Term Plan (MTP III) 2018-2022
  ○ Fourth Medium Term Plan (MTP IV) concept launched on Feb 2022 (Only concept note exists)
• CIDPs
• SDGs and LNOB

Prioritizing

KNBS Reports
a. Kenya Comprehensive Poverty Analysis Report, 47 County Poverty and Budget Reports: The Kenya Comprehensive Poverty Analysis report measured multidimensional poverty among children, youths, adult women and men, and the elderly in Kenya, studied the relationship between monetary and multidimensional poverty. More than half of the Kenyan population (53% or 23.4million Kenyans) are multidimensionally poor - deprived of at least 3 basic needs, services and rights out of the seven analysed namely nutrition, education, economic activity, information, water, sanitation, and housing.
b. The Women’s Empowerment Index: provides the first comprehensive and systematic measure for women and girl’s empowerment in Kenya
c. INEQUALITY TRENDS AND DIAGNOSTICS IN KENYA 2020 - A Joint Report of the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics on Multidimensional Inequality: The study is also motivated by cross country empirical studies that find that inequality is negatively associated with economic growth.
Furthermore, inequality may be associated with multiple social problems and this can lead to a systematic breakdown in the social structure and social cohesion, with serious consequences on the capacity of a government to govern.
d. Gross County Product

Prioritizing

County Statistical Abstracts

Public Participation

Public value legitimizes organizations through more accountability whereby public managers both face citizens as well as their political masters, rather than static, top-down models where public managers only focus on meeting centrally driven targets and performance management. 

Public Participation - Legal framework

1. Article 6 and 7 of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act of 2012 entrenches accountability and transparency in the budget preparation process through public participation
2. Article 6(1) states “Subject to national security considerations, the public shall be provided with full access to financial information in a timely manner for purposes of seeking public input...”
3. County Government Act of 2012, section 119 lays the ground for a Citizen’s Service Centre (a central office for the provision of public services in conjunction with the national government); it states that “... (1) A county executive committee shall establish a Citizens’ Service Centre at (a) the county; (b) the sub-county; (c) the Ward; and (d) any other decentralized level”.

Important considerations for indicators

• Good to have versus need to have
• Good enough versus perfect data
• Now versus the future (what will it take to improve results data quality)
• sectoral versus cross-cutting themes
• Qualitative versus quantitative
• Are results that really matter locally necessarily the ones that are being captured/collected?
• Results ‘on paper’ versus ‘results on the ground’ - do we actually use the data? (say in resources allocation)
• Usefulness of indicators vs. time spent collecting them (‘dead-weight’ indicators)
• Long term versus short term