DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE STRATEGIES IN KENYA IN THE 21ST CENTURY
DEFINATIONS
Strategy is a high level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty.
Strategy is important because the resources available to achieve these goals are usually limited. Strategy is also about attaining and maintaining a position of advantage over adversaries through the successive exploitation of known or emergent possibilities rather than committing to any specific fixed plan designed at the outset.
Henry Mintzberg from McGill University defined strategy as "a pattern in a stream of decisions" to contrast with a view of strategy as planning while Max McKeown (2011) argues that "strategy is about shaping the future" and is the human
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The Health Sector
To improve the overall livelihoods of Kenyans, the country aims to provide an efficient and high quality health care system with the best standards. This will reduce health inequalities and improve key areas where Kenya is lagging, especially in lowering infant and maternal mortality. Specific strategies will involve: provision of a robust health infrastructure network; improving the quality of health service delivery to the highest standards and promotion of partnerships with the private sector.
Water and Sanitation
Kenya is a water scarce country. The country therefore aims to conserve water sources and start new ways of harvesting and using rain and underground water. The 21st century has a vision for Water and Sanitation is to ensure that improved water and sanitation are available and accessible to all. The goal to increase both access to safe water and sanitation in both rural and urban areas beyond present levels
The Environment
Kenya aims to be a nation living in a clean, secure and sustainable environment. Specific strategies will involve: promoting environmental conservation for better support to the economic pillar, improving pollution and waste management through the design and application of economic incentives; and the commissioning of public-private partnerships for improved efficiency in water and sanitation delivery.
Housing and Urbanization
The 2030 vision for housing and urbanization
Strategy refers to the plan or action taken to achieve organizational goals. When Ellen took over Tufts-NEMC, the hospital was struggling with payroll and scale. Ellen had to focus on meeting payroll, a short-term strategy, and could not focus entirely on the longer term. She took some immediate measures to help cut cost
Clean water and sanitation is the goal 6 of Sustainable Develop Goal, which is not only aimed to provide the clean water and sanitation for everyone, it is also for have high quality and sustainability of water resources. This goal targets to achieve the equitable and affordable of safe water for all by 2030, and also to complete the sanitation, provide better condition and end the open defecation, particularly pay attention to the needs of women and girls for better health. The goal 6 also includes to reduces the chemical polluted of the water, increasing recycling and safe using of water, ‘protect and restore the ecosystems, and increase using safely managed sanitation services’. Mostly, people thought they can take access to clean, safety
There is a wide variety of factors that influence the formulation and the execution and later the outcomes of strategies. The strategist must weigh those factors and understand the strategic choices that faces the decision makers. Some of these factors are tangible like geography and instrument of national power (diplomacy, military, economy, and information) because they have a definite, objective existence. Others like culture, ideology and history are intangible. The interplay of these factors in a given polity will predominate the way strategy is formulated and executed.
Strategy is defined as a plan of action designed to achieve a major objective. This is the overall operations to achieve a goal. During war the military has tactics which come from the art of planning. A strategy is the guide for the individual, business, or organization to achieve the objective at hand. An individual should map out and meditate in advance to reduce the chance of failing. So, for FedEx, it could be to map out routes to make sure delivery personal does not overlap each other. A strategy is a compass that guides a person along to make sure they achieve their objective.
Henry Mintzberg has defined the definition of strategies in academic ways and in practice in 1988. After examing the strategic process, he found that it was more unpredictable than early thoughts. Thus, it couldn’t refer to one process that be called strategic planning. Instead of that, he concludes the following five types :(1)Strategy as plan – a directed course of action to achieve an intended set of goals; similar to the strategic planning concept;(2)Strategy as pattern – a consistent pattern of past behavior, with a strategy realized over time rather than planned or intended. Where the realized pattern was different from the intent, he referred to the strategy
Clean Water and Sanitation - Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all Targets.
‘Strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long term, which achieves advantage in a changing environment through it’
Water is a bare necessity both for the survival of an individual and a nation. Freshwater scarcity has become a global concern as the projected worldwide demand on water exceeds supplies. Less developed countries in particular are currently suffering from severe water shortages and water contamination. "…half the population of our "civilized" world suffers today with water services inferior to those of the ancient Greeks and Romans…In many developing countries, cholera, dysentery, and other water related diseases are on the upswing." (Gleick,1999) Kenya, Africa is one such case. Kenya's population is approximately 105,000, with a high infant mortality rate and an average life expectancy of 58. Average water conditions
Strategy is well explained as the effective use of well laid out plans to achieve success. It is no less of spectacle to attribute strategy to individual achievement, achievement from a company, a country or at the very least a non – financial institute to achieve strategic success.
On 28 July 2010 the human right to water was clearly accepted by the United Nations General Assembly. Clean drinking water are essential to the realization of all human rights were also been acknowledged (United Nations, 2014). The human right to water include five factors which are sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable (United Nations, 2014). However, in these five factors, sufficiency and safety are the top two serious issues which will be discussed in this report. Sufficiency means the water supply for a person, between 50 and 100 liters, must be enough and continuous (United Nations, 2014). And the water supply must meet the world Health Organization Guidelines for drinking water quality. This essay will discuss two major problems in two different countries which are water scarcity in Ethiopia and water sanitation in Kenya.
The main focus of our plan is to help relieve poverty in Kenya and have the government assist in creating a safer society in Kenya. The first aspect of our plan is to give professionally installed irrigation systems to all farms, which creates job opportunities and more arable land. We also plan on adding 700 community wells in less populated areas and areas with unclean water. That way women won’t be spending most of their day fetching water for their family. Finally, we plan on making two laws.
Johnson, Wittington, Scholes, Angwin and Regnér (2014, p. 3) defines strategy as ‘the long-term direction of an organisation’.
The severe water crisis in Africa is one of the World’s leading problems. Kenya and South Africa have always had limited water resources, and now with their population continuing to grow, an increase in the demand for water is needed now more than ever before. Water plays a crucial role in continuing to help the continent of Africa develop and grow. This lack of water affects food security, impoverished people, and their health.
There are a host of definitions for strategy. Rather than trying to be comprehensive or creating a definition that tries to be the authoritative source, I 'll use a simple definition of strategy for my purposes. Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve outcomes. That 's it. This definition is loyal to best tenants of strategy as well; be flexible, nimble and leave options until you reach the appropriate time or level to add further definition.
Strategy is plan action designed to achieve long term and overall goals. Strategy may also be defined as method or plan to bring about the desired future or solution to a problem.