The County Fiscal Strategy Paper 2019/2020 comes at a time when the county is bent onparadigm shift from micro to macro projects, a transformation process that aims at ensuringtop-notch service delivery to the public. Previously, county transformation has been throughinfrastructure and socio-economic development. Under this, progress was made in severalareas: food self-sufficiency and security; health and sanitation; water; markets and enterprisedevelopment; cooperatives development; early childhood education and vocational training;and other devolved functions as specified in Part II of the 4th Schedule of the Constitution.Abstracting from the positive reports of the recently published Gross County Product (GCP)by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS, 2019), the county aims at ensuring thatall projects previously completed but are not functional are operationalized, while thosewhich were incomplete due to unavoidable circumstances are given priority in financing sothat they can be completed and operationalized for the public to benefit from them. Newdevelopment interventions will be implemented based on information obtained from variousstakeholders through public participation and priorities based county transformationexigencies. It is expected that these interventions will contribute immensely to theimprovement of livelihoods of the people, hence the theme of the Paper, TransformingLives through Accelerated Socio-Economic and Infrastructure Development.To realize the theme, implementation of programs defined in this paper will hinge on theFour Pillars: (i) social transformation through investment in healthcare services, education,youth, culture and social services; (ii) improvement of governance and administrationthrough investment in devolution structures for effective service delivery; (iii) transformationof county infrastructure, housing, energy and communication through Investment in roadnetwork and ICT services; and (iv) agricultural and industrial transformation for improvedfood security through investment in crop production, fisheries and livestock production.The county will invest in agriculture to ensure it plays its critical role in food self-sufficiencyand security through enhanced extension services, mechanization and provision of improvedinputs. In health sector, the county continue will continue equipping the existing facilitiesand operationalize completed ones to improve accessibility to quality healthcare and alsoinvest in universal healthcare services. In roads sector, the county will seek to improve roadnetwork through grading, gravelling, construction of bridges and tarmacking so that at theexpiry of the CIDP 2018-2022, no part of Siaya will be referred to as remote. Improved road FISCAL STRATEGY PAPER 20195network will accelerate exchange of goods thereby contributing immensely in enterprisedevelopment, value addition, job creation and reduction in poverty. The county will also seekto push development to greater heights through investment in culture and heritage, earlychildhood education, vocational training, water, strengthening of decentralized structures(sub-county, ward and village administration), gender and right-based developmentinterventions and strengthening of its own source revenue base and human resource capacity.These interventions take into perspectives national agenda of The Big Four and theSustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They are expected to increase the size of the countyeconomy, gross value addition and share of the gross domestic product (GDP).

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