Kenya Education Support Programme
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Background and objectives
The Kenya Education Support Programme (KESSP) is the programme through which the Government of Kenya, development partners, civil society, communities, and the private sector have come together to support education sector development for the period 2005-10.
The programme fits within the framework of national policy set out in the Economic Recovery Strategy (ERS) and has been developed through a Sector Wide Approach to Planning (SWAP).
The donor community views initiatives such as KESSP as central to the achievement of international development objectives such as the Millennium Development Goals. An SEA of KESSP was undertaken before the investment programmes had been fully designed, so it was important that the SEA i) assessed the potential impacts that the investment programmes might have in tackling some of the key (and crosscutting) social and environmental issues related to education; and ii) provide guidance on how to mitigate these potential impacts in the design and implementation of KESSP’s investment programmes.
Approach
The SEA aimed to:
- Provide an environmental and social situational analysis, by identifying key issues and stakeholders in the education sector in Kenya.
- Through fieldwork, stakeholder interviews and desk research, identify the likely strategic environmental and social impacts of the KESSP and analyse the severity, significance and risk of those impacts.
- Develop measures to manage or mitigate any negative impacts identified, and to enhance any positive impacts.
- Integrate these measures into an Environmental and Social Management Plan which could be mainstreamed into the design and operation of the programme.
- Make recommendations for the design of the KESSP, including identifying gaps and opportunities, as well as potential cost savings.
- Make recommendations for any further studies needed.
Outcomes of the SEA:
- Influenced the design of the KESSP at early stage.
- Strengthened the environmental and social sustainability of implementation.
- Made institutional recommendations to enhance implementation.
- Improved donor co-ordination by maximising the use of resources, avoiding duplication of effort and integrating different donor aims and priorities.
Source: DFID/ERM (2005).
(Reproduced with permission of OECD.)
