Economic planning in Kenya

Abstract

Although planning of some sort had existed in Kenya for a long time, planning did not start in a serious way in the country, until after attainment of our independence. Immediately after achievement of internal self government in June 1963 a Directorate of Planning made up of an Economic Planning Division, a Financial Planning Division- and a Statistics Division was established. The Directorate was located in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in December 12th, 1964s a full Ministry of Economic Planning and Development was created to assume the economic planning and statistics functions which hitherto had been handled by the Directorate of Planning. The Financial Planning Division remained in the Ministry of Finance, except the technical assistance functions which were transferred to the Ministry of Economic Planning and Development.