This Strategic Plan developed by the Water Resources Authority (WRA) is a 4-year sectoral document aiming at regulating the management and use of water resources in the country. The Plan identifies strategic objectives, assesses the Authority’s strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities, culminating into a series of strategic initiatives and detailed tasks that will help to realize the 2030 Vision and achieve the indicated corporate strategic focus areas. Through this Plan, the WRA seeks to align itself with the country’s development blueprint - Vision 2030, the Constitution of Kenya 2010, the Water Act 2016 and the National Water Master Plan 2030. To achieve its purposes, the Strategy hinges on four Corporate Strategic Focus Areas namely (1) customer focus aiming at strengthening stakeholder collaboration in water resources management; (2) financial perspective aiming at enhancing resource mobilization and effective use of the finances; (3) internal processes aiming at promoting widespread infrastructure and service delivery; and (4) organizational capacity aiming at at building the institutional capacity and improving the working environment. The following four indicators will show the degree of implementation of the performance and track the progresses (1) Level of customer satisfaction index; (2) Level of increase in revenue and cost reduction; (3) Compliance to internal processes; and (4) Institutional capacity development. Among the main Strategic Initiatives that need to be taken by the WRA to achieve the objectives of the Plan there are (i) strengthen and enhance water resources monitoring; (ii) assess and upgrade the status of the existing monitoring stations; (iii) enhance the Water Resources Information Systems (WRIMS) also utilizing web based information; (iv) improve and enhance the existing laboratories and field water quality analysis in terms of technical and human capacity; (v) involve the Community (WRUA) in the water quality analysis through community science and innovations; (vi) strengthen water resources planning, allocation and compliance to regulation; (vii) improve the protection and conservation of water resources to increase per capita water availability; (viii) strengthen the prevention and regulation of water related disasters; (ix) enhance multi‐sectoral and public‐private sector participation in WRM and increase revenue collection.
Kenya · 2019-01-01