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FIGURE C.1
Asset management plans with growing scope and deepening sophistication
Interim AM plan
Basic AM plan
Advanced AM plan • Setting up framework, adopting strategy, plans • Collecting basic information and inventory
• Framework, strategy, plans, and procedures adopted • Basic systems operational, registers populated, recording of asset conditions ongoing
• Integrated and automated AM system • AM plan is lined to IFMIS, budgeting, performance measurement, and long-term planning
• Fully integrated AM system is operational with ISO certificate and • Used as a core tool for asset operation and development
ISO-certified AM plan
Source: Nairobi City County Government. Note: AM = asset management; IFMIS = integrated financial management information system; ISO = International Organization for Standardization.
Critical actions in the interim AM plan and during the first one or two years of asset management include the following: establishing and positioning AM in the county organization; adopting an AM policy, strategy, and short-term plan; establishing the core AM system and initial procedures; inventorying assets, developing and maintaining asset registers; developing human capacities; and gradually establishing baseline information for measuring progress and performance.
The AMDR or AM team is a new entity in the county organization, but various functions and fragments of AM have been built into the county organization, and several required procedures have been performed under the various sectors, by different service directorates, and/or by managers of various facilities (for example, markets or sport or cultural facilities). The aim of the AM strategy and this plan is to institutionalize a coordinated professional AM system and build the foundation of future integrated AM in harmony with the county AM policy.
Figure C.2 exhibits the current players in the Nairobi City County (NCC) AM who will undoubtedly remain key parts and members of the new AM system and community but repositioned in the new framework. Sectors and the units under them today tend to act in silos and perform AM by implementing their unit budgets, which are somewhat coordinated by the budgeting procedures largely in financial terms but remain detached during budget implementation. The AM system and AM policy aim to shift AM to the highest county strategy and budget
