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This document reports the results of UN-HABITAT’s scoping mission 10-
15 February 2014 to Kiambu County as a follow up of the first UN-
HABITAT mission 23 December 2014 meeting with Kiambu Governors
and team. The main aim of the scoping mission is to discuss and look for
areas of intervension for Kiambu county’s revenue enhancement in the
context of devolved governance (political, administration and fiscal)
mandated by Kenya Constitution 2010. At the implementation stage, this
devolution is being consolidated to harmonize it with the legacy systems to
find an optimum, fair and productive system architecture. Inevitably, the 14
devolved functions to County governments raise a fiscal gap that requires
the county governments to creatively and immediately find ways to enhance
their revenues within a situation of human resources and current
institutional capacity that needs significant investments for improvement.

The scoping mission went to Kiambu met with various stakeholders from
Deputy Governor and ministers to senior staff of key operations including a
representative of Kiambu manufacturing business sector and legal and
human resources consultants. The mission also visited and discussed the
matters with Association of County Government Kenya and resource
persons in the Ministries of devolution and finance Kenya central
government. This then faciliated the Mission to observe the strength,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats related to Kiambu and specifically for
Kiambu revenue enhancement program. The obsevation led the Mission to
conclude that there are 25 subsystems that need to be improved and they
can be clustered into three main areas: (i) integrated revenue management,
(ii) local economic development and income generation and (iii) public
participation.