Abstract
Successfully achieving the sustainable development goals requires addressing complex, interrelated, wicked problems across multiple scales and contexts and decision-making that tackles nested layers of goals and targets across the interrelated social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. The Stakeholder Approach to Risk-informed and Evidence-based Decision-making (SHARED) bridges processes, tools and accessible evidence to support inter-sectoral and multi-stakeholder decision-making and implementation aimed at achieving resilience aspirations and associated investments. Adaptive collaborative management and multiple-loop learning serve as a basis for the systematic approach to institutional learning that supports shifts in underlying institutional understanding and values leading to actionable organisational change. This paper describes a contextual application of tailored technical assistance and institutional support to the Turkana County Government in Kenya, a newly devolved governance structure, under conditions of complexity. The SHARED Turkana County decision case demonstrates how the approach responded to a policy aspiration, resulting in greater and more intentional use of evidence in planning and budget allocations, cross-sectoral and multi-stakeholder partnerships, inclusive and transformative projects and a consultative and evidence-based five-year County Integrated Development Plan.
Highlights
AspirationThe arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) counties in Kenya have historically been economically and politically marginalised due to low income, poor accessibility, nomadic communities and insecurity (GOK 2007; Schilling et al 2012), discriminatory policies favouring productive counties, and environmental vulnerability caused by increasing frequencies of droughts (Opyio et al 2015)
Finding limited results from the initial County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP), in 2015 the Department of Finance and Economic Planning (DFEP)’s County Executive Committee Member (CECM) requested support to ‘make decisions that will have an impact on outcomes—despite the risks Turkana faces’
The results and discussion section are outlined according to the results of the phases of the Stakeholder Approach to Risk-informed and Evidence-based Decision-making (SHARED) framework and organised according to the learning loop result types (a) shifts in institutional understanding and values and (b) organisational change
Summary
Introduction and Policy AspirationThe arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) counties in Kenya have historically been economically and politically marginalised due to low income, poor accessibility, nomadic communities and insecurity (GOK 2007; Schilling et al 2012), discriminatory policies favouring productive counties, and environmental vulnerability caused by increasing frequencies of droughts (Opyio et al 2015). The constitutional shift to a devolved governance structure coincided with a major drought in 2011 prompting a focus by the ASAL donor group and the Kenya National Drought Management Authority (Government of Kenya 2015) on resilience to prevent and anticipate disasters that threaten agriculture, nutrition, food security and food safety (FAO n.d.). This prompted the newly established Turkana County Government to consider resilience programming as critical to its future
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