281. Under Kenya Vision 2030, the country’s economic blueprint, Kenya aims to be a middle-income rapidly industrializing country by 2030, offering all its citizens a high quality of life, which is a key to the preservation of the dignity of the human person. The vision is being implemented through periodic medium term plans covering 5 years. Its first Medium Term Plan was implemented between 2008 and 2012. The Second Medium Term Plan outlines the policies, programmes and projects which the Government intends to implement during the five year period starting 2013 to 2017 in order to deliver accelerated and inclusive economic growth, higher living standards, better education and health care, increased job creation especially for youth, commercialized agriculture providing higher rural incomes and affordable food, improved manufacturing sector and more diversified exports. All this is necessary in order to address the acute challenges of poverty, joblessness, and inequality and to facilitate faster realisation of Kenya Vision 2030. 282. Some of the major flagship projects being undertaken in the Plan include: The Lamu Port and New Transport Corridor Development to Southern Sudan and Ethiopia (LAPSSET); The project involves the development of a new transport corridor that will foster transport linkage between Kenya, Southern Sudan and Ethiopia and thus promoting not only national but also regional socioeconomic development along transport corridor especially in the hitherto underserved Northern, Eastern and North – Eastern parts of Kenya. The new Standard Gauge Railway, which is also a Vision 2030 Flagship project to be implemented by the Kenya Railways Corporation. The project involves the development of a modern high speed, high capacity standard gauge railway for passengers and freight which will stretch from the port city of Mombasa all the way to Kigali in Rwanda and Juba in South Sudan. The investment in the project will be positive considering the key deliverables such as the provision of a modern and efficient transport system; creation of new sustainable businesses and jobs and the enhancement of local and regional commerce. Devolved government 283. The Constitution also introduced a devolved system of governance that came into operation after the March 2013 elections. Devolution gives Kenyans a greater say in determining the development initiatives in their local areas. Devolution strengthened further by the Constitutional requirement of public participation in governance, legislation, policy-making, financial management and other functions. The Equalization Fund 284. The Constitution sets up the Equalization Fund to accelerate the developmental growth of areas in Kenya which have been left behind for years as a result of historical injustices. The Commission on Revenue Allocation, created to manage the Fund, has prepared a Marginalization Policy (2011-2014), setting out the criteria for identifying marginalized areas in Kenya. The Fund will be in existent for a period of 20 years and is allocated at a rate of 0.5 of the national revenue 285. In 2011, the Commission on Revenue Allocation identified 14 counties as the most marginalized in the country. According to the criteria for identifying marginalised areas for the purposes of the Equalization Fund released by the Commission on Revenue Allocation, Turkana county received the lion’s share of the allocation with USD 3,074,305, followed by Mandera USD 2,824,730/-, Wajir USD 63