This report highlights the results of devolution under our support to the Government of Kenya through the Integrated Support to the Devolution Process in Kenya project (2014 - 2018). This project has been implemented with the invaluable contribution of the Governments of United Kingdom through DFID, the United States through USAID, Sweden through SIDA and the Royal Government of the Kingdom of Norway through the Norwegian Embassy in Kenya. The development partners have been supporting Kenya on the devolution journey, and remain committed to continuing this support. UNDP‘s support is in collaboration with the national and county governments. The support is derived from the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), which is aligned to the Kenya Vision 2030 and its attendant Medium Term Plan II.

The project’s focus is on the following devolution areas: enhancing service delivery through county performance management systems; promoting civic education and public participation; national capacity building through training and curriculum development; policy formulation and legislative drafting support; strengthening county planning process through County Integrated Plan Reviews, mainstreaming climate change and disaster risk reduction and technical support to spatial planning; gender responsive planning and budgeting; county-to county peer learning and knowledge sharing. A key and innovative youth development support that UNDP has provided to devolution is the technical assistance to both national and county governments through the United Nations Volunteers in the areas including Public Financial Management, Monitoring and Evaluation and Statistics, Human Resource Management and GIS.