In pursuit of the municipality’s vision, and mission our mandate to spur economic growth. The strategies aims at building the municipality for its current and future residential needs in the following areas:
Social-Economic growth of the municipality will be anchored on the following pillars of growth:
infrastructure, social amenities and disaster and disaster preparedness.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Kapsabet Municipality infrastructure comprises of transport network, telecommunication, education facilities, health facilities, power supply, markets, housing, solid waste management, Drainage system, Trade and Tourism and disaster Management systems.
TRANSPORT
The municipality is well served with road network with majority of areas being accessible during the dry season. Currently, there is uneven distribution of the road network in kapsabet town with a concentration in the central and the southern part and dispersion in the northern part.
TELECOMMUNICATION
The main courier service providers in the municipality include Kenya postal services, G4S, Easy Coach, Coast Bus road services and Shuttles. Most of the areas in the municipality are covered by mobile phone network with the coverage being 99 per cent. . Most of the community members rely on radio, television and newspapers as the major sources of information.
WATER & SEWERAGE
kapsabet Municipality is served by a combination of surface water and ground water systems. River Amai is the main source of water supply in the municipality and its environs. Water is drawn through two intakes, the old one constructed in in 1992. However, these sources are dilapidated due to old age and lack of proper maintenance. The groundwater system consists of 3 boreholes located within the Municipality.
Sewerage system in kapsabet Municipality needs expansion to meet the current and future sewerage flows. The Municipality has only one sewerage treatment works;
Due to poor maintenance and delayed rehabilitation of the treatment works, sewerage flows have been diverted to nearest ponds and river courses. The overflows and blockages eventually cause public health hazard to residents of the Municipality. In this regard, rehabilitation works is necessary to bring the existing sewerage system to its design capacity need to be put in place.
All the trading centers in kapsabet municipality are agricultural centers. These markets include; Chepterit, CBD, ngenymbagurio and Baraton with all centres having two market days per week.
Housing
Kapsabet Municipality has 1 housing scheme constructed under kapsabet Municipal Council in the late 198s under low cost housing for low income earners.
Solid Waste management
The municipality through the County Government has provided dust bins and self loading truck for refuse disposal and collection respectively in designated areas. In some residential areas, compositing is done by digging compost pits within the compound that are either burned or closed up.
General dumping is practised in many areas especially in back streets, in low income areas and in general open spaces. Plastics are also dumped all over making the sites difficult to clear. The municipality lacks adequate dumping sites for solid waste.
Drainage system
Most residential estates are served by a sewerage system. Other areas mostly non-residential places are served with septic tanks whereas low income/informal settlements are served by pit latrines.
Trade and Tourism
Social amenities
Social services like schools, hospitals, shops and public transport, are needed at an early stage in the life of new communities.
Disaster and Disaster preparedness.
The major disasters in kapsabet is mystery fires. Cases of school and trading shops fires have also been reported in the past. To improve on the disaster preparedness action, a disaster is inplace near emgwen CDF Ofices .The town has ambulances and fire fighting machinery that respond to these disasters as soon as they arise. With the proposed expansion of town there is need to increase the number of disaster management equipment