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    Assessing the Effectiveness of State-level Forestry Policy on Forest Development in Kenya
    (NDU-K, 2023) Abuto George O
    An effective implementation of Forestry Policies is critical for ensuring attainment of strategic forest goals for the sustainable socioeconomic development of the Country. Primarily, the provisioning and regulative roles of Forest ecosystems are vital for the resilience of the global productive and industrial sectors of socioeconomic growth and development. This study focused on assessing the effectiveness of Kenya’s forestry policies on forest development with the aim of proffering policy interventions to reverse the prevailing loss of vital roles of forests emerging from the increased rate of deforestation. The scoping of the study assessed factors influencing state-level forestry policy on forest development; undertook analysis of critical components of effective implementation of forest policies; and as well, evaluated the impact of the Forestry legal and policy frameworks vital for forestry development and socioeconomic growth in Kenya. The primary and secondary data collection methodology was based on qualitative and quantitative techniques based on stratified sampling survey and analysis. The interpretative aspect of the results was grounded on the conceptual framework developed on the basis of David Easton's system theory and Lindblom’s theory of incrementalism. The conceptual framework further borrowed on the concepts in Sadler's Policy Effectiveness Triangle revised by Baker and McClelland (2003) and the Integrated Policy Implementation Model developed by Winther and Nielson (2008). The study findings established that the implementation of Kenya's Forest Conservation and Management Act 2016, the Draft Forest Policy 2014 revised in 2020 and the third version of Forest Strategic Plan 2018-2022 are moderately relevant and moderately effective in spearheading the global, regional and national goals on sustainable forest management and development. However, adjustment of the level of effectiveness of the underlined policy was found necessary thus the following administrative and policy recommendations were proffered; review of the Policy to enhance global and Regional integration and cooperation on topical forestry matters; enhancing linkages and partnerships, particularly on the inter-organization participation in Forestry; revitalizing training and competency development policy to customize distributive fairness and equal opportunity informed by clear training needs inventory; customizing stakeholders' collaborative planning and resource mobilization with a common funding system; establishing Resource Mobilization and Distribution scheme that calibrates fair distributive systems of implementation resources across forest Regions; and enhancing Public-Private partnership in forestry investment and consideration for Tax rebates to prop growth of Wood and Non-Wood Based Forest enterprises, ostensibly in the redistribution of equal socioeconomic growth and national development in forestry across the Country.