Annual Capacity and Performance Assessment of Kenian County Governments
At a glance
- Project leader : Dr. Achim Lang
- Deputy of project leader : Dr. Sandro Fuchs
- Project team : Pascal Horni
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : EU and other international programmes (World Bank), Other (Republik Kenia)
- Contact person : Achim Lang
Description
The Republic of Kenya developed a National Capacity Building
Framework in 2013 to guide the implementation of its capacity
building support for county governments as part of the Kenya
Devolution Support Program. For fund allocation purpose and
progress tracking an Annual Capacity and Performance Assessment
(ACPA) was intended to be implemented.
Through a competitive procurement process the Ministry of
Devolution and Planning com-missioned the consortium consisting of
Matengo Githae & Associates (MGA), KCA University and Zurich
University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) with the first-time
implementation of the ACPA. In consideration of the financial
consequences of the assessment results, high attention was given to
quality, which was assured by a double loop review approach
consisting of an internal and an external review. The latter was
performed by ZHAW in the role of an inter-national scientific
advisor and quality assurer. In that capacity ZHAW contributed to
the ob-jectivity and uniformity of the ACPA county reports and
critically assessed the documentation and evidence basis presented
by the MGA assessor teams. Out of this reviewing activity ZHAW
gained valuable insights on the project as a whole, which are
summarized in an QA-report.