Regional development strategies in Kenya

Abstract

Regional planning in Kenya is still in a fairly elementary state of development "both in its economic and its physical aspects. The government of Kenya, having become increasingly aware, of the physical planning problems which accompany rapid national development directed in 1966 that the responsibilities of the department of urban and rural physical planning be increased to include physical planning at the national and regional levels, and that the production of integrated. socio-economic development plans for the towns and villages of Kenya be achieved in close collaboration with the ministry of finance and economic planning which is the overall planning agency in the country. The whole of Kenya is thus covered by regional physical development plans based on the administrative boundaries of the seven provinces of Kenya. These plans laid down a "growth pole" strategy for the location of physical infrastructure which would enable development agencies to co-ordinate their activities to the benefit of themselves, the people who will be served and the overall economic development of each region.