The UNDP has reviewed the DFID Country Assistance
Strategy and is of the view that it is well written and is comprehensive
in its analysis of the situation and the challenges of development
as they exist in the country. The sentiments are in sync with
the Government initiatives to revive agriculture and tourism as
having potential for economic growth and poverty reduction. The
Government at a recent Kenya/donor co-ordination group meeting
at the Treasury also expressed these sentiments. Also, proposals
and strategies are in harmony with those contained in the GoK
policy documents such as the ERS and PRSP.
We would also wish to recognise convergences
between DFIDs areas of intervention and UNDP Country Programme
Action Plan 2004-08. Some of these are the following:
| DFID | UNDP
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| 1. Capacity building support to the Ministry of Finance for proper co-ordination of policy and budgeting.
| Support to the development of national external aid co-ordination policy and development of government/donor interactive website on external resource flows and their alignment with national priorities.
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| 2. Initiatives to address concentration of power through capacity building of parliament and decentralisation.
| Support to devolution, translation of the new Constitution into popular version, implementation of civic education programmes, and capacity building of parliament for oversight and legislative functions.
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| 3. Support to public financial management, legal and anti-corruption reform and with other partners consider engagement on procurement.
| Support to public sector reform and anti-corruption initiatives. More specifically, UNDP programme will support institutionalisation of Public expenditure review process, including putting in place a system for tracking and reporting on the use of public resources.
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| 4. Support to CBS and non-state actors to improve poverty data and increase public information on poverty, the economy and service provison.
| Capacity building at the CBS for monitoring poverty reduction initiatives and at the Cabinet Office to enable the monitoring of reforms.
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| 5. Support to Governance, Justice, Law and Order SWAP.
| Support to national plan of action for promotion and protection of human rights as an input into building national capacity for administration of justice.
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| 6. Engagement with police reform. | Support to the establishment of gender friendly police units.
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We would welcome an opportunity to discuss further on possible
areas of collaboration within our two country programmes of co-operation.
