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Swot Analysis
This is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project. The SWOT analysis is instrumental in strategy formulation and selection as it provides information that is helpful in matching resources and capabilities to the competitive environment in which one operates.
Strengths and weaknesses are internal factors while opportunities and threats are external factors. By understanding these four aspects of a project situation, one can better leverage on strengths, correct the weaknesses, capitalize on golden opportunities, and deter potentially devastating threats.
| Strengths |
Weaknesses |
- Readily available human resources both unskilled and skilled manpower.
- Geographically productive area
- Committed, focused and development conscious MP.
- Fairly good infrastructure
- The larger part of Kangema is a disaster free area
- Availability of lending institutions-micro finance banks.
- Tourism sites-Tuthu Fisheries and aberdare forest
- Agriculturally rich soils.
- Readily available resources e.g. water, land, forests.
- Adequate security in the region
- Good education facilities primary schools, secondary schools and youth polytechnics.
- Presence of health facilities
- Agricultural processing Factories e.g. KCC cooling plant, coffee and tea factories
- Strong social cohesion as a result of same language and culture.
- Favorable climatic conditions
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- Lack of good road network.
- Few field officers that leads to insufficient consultations with farmers
- Lack of storage and small industries for processing local produces especially fruits and vegetables.
- Lack alternative source of energy
- Drug and substance abuse especially amongst the youth
- Small land acreage.
- Soil erosion and pollution
- Land ownership
- Insecurity due to illegal sects and poor community policing
- Child labour in coffee and tea farms
- Lack of sewerage and dumping sites
- High rates of HIV/AIDS infections.
- Inadequate piped water supply
- Under developed Jua kali sector
- Unutilized resources and unexploited manpower e.g. technical schools
- Poor performance in education due to in adequate staffing and poor facilities.
- Poor roads on the lower parts of the constituency
- Gender imbalance in decision making organs
- Un even distribution of resources leading to inequality
- Lack of market for the produce
- Poor land distribution/ policy, sub division of land into small pieces which are uneconomical
- Unskilled and ignorant workforce
- Inadequate health facilities and trained personnel.
- Some areas are prone to natural calamities e.g. landslides, drought
- Threat of mono culture e.g. growing of one crop tea
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| Opportunities |
Threats |
- Many unexploited markets for their produce
- Stable and economically progressive country
- Development of ICT services
- Available expertise from NGOs, ministries, volunteers etc.
- Growing infrastructure – telephone, roads, electricity etc
- Favorable government policies
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- Price fluctuations for agricultural products
- Rural urban migration
- Dumping of illicit brews
- Child abuse and abduction
- Globalization which has grossly affected traditional values especially among the youth
- Drug and substance abuse
- Expensive Agricultural Inputs
- HIV/AIDS Scourge
- Scarce technological skills which are also expensive
- Unpredictable weather
- Environmental degradation
- Low investment in education
- Insecurity
- High unemployment and poverty rate
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Vision/Mission/Values/Goals/Objectives and Core Strategy
Vision
To have a healthy and peaceful constituency that is politically, socially and economically empowered
Mission
To mobilize and work with all stakeholders and development partners through maximum utilization of all available opportunities and resources for the benefit of the entire constituency
Values
- Community participation in decision making and implementation
- Transparency and accountability
- Efficiency and Effectiveness
- Equitable distribution of available resources
- Promotion of teamwork
- Commitment to community development
- Recognition of gender and the marginalized groups
Goals
To improve the quality of life of Kangema’s people through promotion of food security, increase of family income, provision of quality education and healthcare.
Objectives
- To improve crop & livestock production through the introduction and use of modern farming technology.
- To reduce new cases of HIV/AIDS infections by 5% through sensitisation campaigns in VCTs and the community at large
- To ensure that every year the population that can access good roads, clean piped water and reliable electricity supply increases by 12% every year
- By improving the education services and facilities, have at least 100 students from Kangema constituency enrol in Public Universities every years.
Core Strategy
The strategy is to position Kangema as the largest milk producer and supplier in Central Province
Sector Strategies
Education
Academic performance in Kangema constituency has been on the decline resulting to a negligible number of students being admitted in public universities. Of concern are the high rate of school dropouts and the low transition rate of students from primary to secondary schools. Polytechnics in the constituency lack proper learning facilities. These and other factors have greatly contributed to a growing number of low skilled youth.
Challenges
- High drop out rates
- Poor performance
- Inadequate staff
- Inadequate facilities e.g. Playing ground, electricity, laboratories, classrooms etc
- Negative attitude on the part of parents towards investment in education
- Pre and post primary education is expensive
- Lack of special facilities for the handicapped
- There are no adult education opportunities
- Child Labour
- HIV/AIDS
- Low transition rate of children from primary schools to secondary schools and even from secondary schools to universities
- Lack of ICT facilities
Interventions
- Encourage Guidance and counseling in schools and have special centers in the community
- Motivation of children and teachers
- Employ more qualified teachers in schools
- Provision of essential facilities in learning institutions
- Supply electricity and water to all schools and polytechnic
- Cost-sharing between parents and governments especially in post primary education
- Provide ICT facilities to schools and polytechnics
- Enforce the children’s act
- Facilitate sensitization campaigns to the community on the importance of investing in education
Result
- Improved performance of pupils and students
- Efficiency in all learning institutions
- Decline in crime
- Increased computer literacy in the constituency
Infrastructure
Poor infrastructure is evident in Kangema constituency. Majority of the roads are impassable, while electricity and piped water are only accessible to a small fraction of the population. Frequent power blackouts in the area profoundly affect business enterprises in the town centers. Except for Internet services from a Post office in Kangema town, the constituency has no cyber café and sometimes people have to travel as far as Murang’a to access internet services. ICT is still a mirage in the constituency with most institutions especially those in the education sector yet to embrace computer technology.
Challenges
- Poor road network
- Poor road drainage
- Encroachment on road reserves
- Lack of ICT facilities
- Lack of streetlights
- High cost of accessing electricity
- Poor distribution and high cost of piped water.
Interventions
- Tarmac the main roads in the constituency
- Government to control and protect road reserves
- Provision of ICT facilities
- Put in place a street lighting program
- Ban cowboy contractors as they cost the community more in the long run
- Re-carpet some of the roads that have now become dilapidated
- Gravel all the earth roads to make them passable especially in the rainy seasons as they await tarmacking
Results
- Improved road network
- Improve the process of marketing agricultural products
- Improve standards of living
- Improve access to all areas in the constituency
- Attract investors in the area
- Increase economic activities in the area
Health
There are 10 public health facilities in the whole of Kangema constituency and which lack qualified personnel and facilities. There is an acute deficiency of information on HIV/AIDS making the disease prevalent in the constituency.
Challenges
- Understaffing
- Irregular supply of drugs
- Inadequate facilities in health facilities
- Lack of a mortuary
- People have to walk long distance to access quality health care
- Effects of HIV/AIDS scourge
- Lack of VCT centers
- Mismanagement of ambulance
Interventions
- Have the government employ more staff
- Ensure regular supply of drugs in health facilities
- Adequately equip all the health facilities
- Build a mortuary
- Create awareness on HIV/AIDS in the community
- Construct more new dispensaries in Sub-locations that do not have nearby health facilities
- Provide ARVs to people suffering from HIV/AIDS
Results
- Have a healthy and productive community
- Low mortality rate
- Save on transportation costs of bodies to other mortuaries
- Creation of employment
- Reduced infection rate of HIV/AIDS
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