Request For Application (RFA) – Fostering Effective Collaboration for Collective Impact through Joint Work Planning
County Governments have a unique responsibility to lead development at the local level. Their efforts cannot be successful without the inclusive and equitable participation of all actors. Recognizing this, the County Integrated Development Plans (CIDPs) call for collective action by stakeholders to implement long-lasting development solutions. These include the efforts by National and County Governments, development partners, civil society organizations, the private sector, local media stakeholders, and communities who all have different and complementary roles to play in the collective impact of sustainable development.
As one of the largest bilateral donors to County Governments, USAID/Kenya, and East Africa Mission, is funding a dynamic portfolio spanning maternal and child health, family planning, infectious diseases, health financing, health governance, Human Resources for Health, agriculture, education, water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions, climate-smart adaptation. Such an extensive portfolio elevates the importance of co-planning, co-implementation, and co-monitoring (3Cs) and timely information-sharing across projects, to reduce duplication of partners’ efforts and leveraging resources.
Through its five-year funded USAID Resilience Learning Activity (RLA), the Agency has been at the forefront of collaborating with the County Governments in implementing the 3Cs through a Joint Work Plan model and thinking collaboratively to identify points of intersection within the development activities. The County Government spearheads this process through the Department of Economic Planning or any other appointed department.
RLA coordinates all the other USAID-funded programs that operate under the Partnership for Resilience and Economic Growth (PREG) and Southern Eastern Kenya Coordination Mechanism (SEK). The users of Joint Work Planning include the local communities, national and County Governments; development partners, civil society organizations (CSOs), and other actors responding to the development needs at the community level. Joint Work Planning provides an opportunity for multi-sectoral discussions amongst these partners to identify priorities for co-planning, complementation, and co-monitoring and reporting of activities to eliminate duplication, pooling of investment and enhance collective action for collective impact. It seeks to promote greater commitment to better collaborative planning, implementation, progress review, learning, and adaptation that will eventually lead to strengthened capacities for the pathway to sustainability.
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