Wajir County Fiscal Strategy Paper 2025

Abstract

The County Fiscal Strategy Paper (CFSP) 2025, is the third to be prepared under the leadership of HE FCPA Ahmed Abdullahi EGH administration. The paper focuses on key medium term policies and priorities as highlighted in the Governors Manifesto and CIDP 2023/2027. The key priorities include; quality and affordable healthcare, food security, social protection, access to early childhood education, critical infrastructure development as well as building resilience to climate change shocks. Since 2022, the County Government has initiated key programmes that incude: provision of quality health care across the county; provision of clean and safe water for domestic use; infrastructure expansion and rehabilitation as well as social programs for vulnerable groups. Some of the flagship programmes/projects implemented are upgrading of Wajir referral hospital to level 5 which is ongoing, construction of County Aggregation and Industrial Park, drilling of boreholes and excavation of water pans across the county. The key challenges facing the county in offering services to the county residents still persist and include: the global supply chain disruptions; elevated prices for basic commodities, poor roads, water and energy infrastructure, public health emergencies, food insecurity and high illiteracy among others. In the medium term, the county is projected to experience suppressed rains hence leading to drought and disease outbreaks. This necessitates the county government to allocated sufficient funds towards responding to these disasters occasioned by climate change hazards