SUED’s first Year in Pictures

In its thematic areas, SUED is supporting

2 Investment Attraction The programme is providing technical assistance to help facilitate productive linkages between national and county level investment promotion agencies. With SUED’s support municipalities are developing investment promotion strategies that draw in investment including public private partnerships (PPPs). The programme will work closely with them to implement the strategies and ensure that they are responsive to the market. The investment will fund commercially bankable climate resilient infrastructure and 4 value chains that have been identified in specific municipal urban economic plans.

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Investment Climate/Business Reforms:

SUED aims to work with to municipalities to help them map out the national and county level legal and regulatory environments constraining private-sector urban growth. 4 The programme will avail to the municipalities analytical tools to assess county level investor readiness as way of helping municipalities identify areas that they need to support to stimulate further demand- driven investment climate reform.

Capacity Building Specialist: With SUED’s support, municipal staff and stakeholders will receive technical assistance to enhance their capacity to develop urban administration systems and local revenue generation strategies.

As a result, they will be able to sustain SUED’s programmatic efforts and enable the municipality to better manage their climate resilient infrastructure and promote investment in the municipality delivering efficient and equitable development.

SUED carries out a meeting with stakeholders and municipality staff from Kitui to learn about their capacity needs.