Written by Mercy Kihugu
Nakuru County has been ranked top nationally following the unveiling of the 2025 County Agricultural Sector Steering Committee (CASSCOM) performance report by Think Tank Research in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
According to the unveiled report, Nakuru emerged number one, recording a 73 per cent score in the CASSCOM impact ranking and an impressive 85.4 per cent in the CASSCOM capacity ranking, affirming the county’s strong performance in agricultural sector coordination.
The findings were officially presented during a national workshop on strengthening the coordination of food systems actors in Kenya, where the report was unveiled. During the event, the report was handed over to the County Executive Committee Member for Agriculture, Leonard Bor.
The national workshop brought together key food systems stakeholders to review existing national-level food systems coordination platforms, structures, and mechanisms. It also sought to identify gaps, overlaps, and opportunities for improved inter-agency, inter-ministerial, and multi-sectoral coordination, while developing actionable recommendations for institutional strengthening, policy alignment, and resource mobilisation.
Furthermore, participants reached consensus on the next steps to institutionalise a coherent national food systems coordination framework in Kenya.
The County Agricultural Sector Steering Committee (CASSCOM) plays a key role in Nakuru by improving efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability in service delivery through harmonised coordination between the agricultural sector and county stakeholders.
CASSCOM serves as the single coordination gateway for all agricultural and food systems interventions in the county. Any investor, development partner, NGO, or farmer organisation intending to work in Nakuru’s agriculture sector engages through CASSCOM. All proposals are aligned with county priorities. implementation, ensuring coherence, preventing duplication, and maximising impact.
This has enabled Nakuru to shift from fragmented, parallel projects to an integrated food systems approach, supporting value chains such as dairy, fodder, horticulture, and crops while linking production, markets, finance, climate action, and nutrition.
Through this framework, partners’ investments, innovations, and technical support are aligned under a single coordination mechanism, helping the County Government of Nakuru achieve its goals for food security, climate resilience, and agricultural transformation.
This has led to Nakuru’s CASSCOM to increasingly be referenced nationally, not because it is perfect, but because it is functional, trusted, and effective.
