Narok County Spatial Plan
- Category: NECSA Memoranda
- Date 04-05-2023
A spatial plan is a strategic document that outlines how land & resources within a particular geographic area will be used, managed and developed over a defined period of time. The National Spatial Plan (2015-2045) of Kenya sets the trend and direction for the spatial development of all the forty-seven counties and the Exclusive Economic Zones and covers a period of thirty years with ten-year periodical reviews.
Development in Kenya has traditionally been emphasized on economic growth with little regard for spatial and physical planning which has resulted in uncoordinated development, wastage of resources and unbalanced development. Spatial plans address this by providing strategies and policies to deal with national challenges of regional imbalances/inequalities, rural development, underutilization of the available resources, urbanization, environmental degradation and inefficient transportation.
Between 16th & 18th February, NECSA-K members convened at Naivasha to review the Narok County Spatial Plan and generated a memorandum on it. Some of the comments generated included:
• The inclusion of climate change mitigation and adaptation as an objective
• Addition of further objectives on:
o promoting land use and land planning for improved food security,
o sustainable land utilization to curb land subdivision.
• Inclusion of strategies such as promoting participatory forest management through the development of participatory forest management plans with the forest adjacent communities to improve and foster the joint management of forest resources.
The complete memorandum that was generated at the workshop can be downloaded and read here.
Other important documents in the county planning strategy and framework include; the County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP), and county specific sectoral policies and plans. The CIDP is a counterpart plan of the Medium-Term Plan (MTP) at the County level and is meant to implement projects identified in the counties.