Background

The National Irrigation Authority was established on August 16, 2019 by the Irrigation Act No. 14 of 2019 as a successor institution of the National Irrigation Board. This was after His Excellency the President assented to the Irrigation Bill of 2019 on July 29, 2019 paving way for its gazettement via Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 136 (Acts No. 14) of August 2, 2019. The objective of the irrigation Act 2019 is to provide for the development, management and regulation of irrigation, to support sustainable food security and socioeconomic development in Kenya, and for connected purposes. Irrigation in Kenya is well anchored in Vision 2030, the Third Medium Term Plan (MTP III) 2018-2022, Big Four Agenda 2018-2022 and further cascaded in the Authority’s Strategic Plan 2019-2023. The Irrigation Act is further intended to support sustainable food production by clearly outlining the roles of national and county governments in facilitating irrigation activities in Kenya.

Their Vision

Water to every irrigable acre

Their Mission

Provide and coordinate Sustainable Development and Management of irrigation services in Kenya

Core Values

• Professionalism: They exhibit professional conduct and sound judgement in standards and service; they uphold objectivity and are focused on issues.
• Teamwork: They believe that the journey to greatness is taken along with others with whom they must keep work with one step at a time (Everyone has something to bring to the table).
• Equity: They uphold fairness in their operations for all irrespective of gender, disability, religion and socio-cultural background.
• Integrity: They demonstrate the highest ethical standards in all aspects of their work complete with transparency, deep commitment to their customers, every community they serve and amongst themselves. They  thrive in disclosure while upholding clarity and simplicity in all their endeavors.
• Innovation: they think creatively and differently to make a difference and apply innovative thinking and diversity to everything they do. They remain open to new ideas; always looking for new ways to improve processes and seeking of sustainable solutions for stakeholders and partners.
• Quality: They value excellence in service provision, leadership, people development, managing long team relationship. Their strategies shall aim at continual improvements in their systems, products and services diversification, reliability, accessibility and affordability.
• Passion: They are passionate about what they do and who they are every day, who they do it for and enjoy doing it. It’s much easier to focus their passion towards developing solutions to achieving the Authority’s mandate and develop a much more cohesive team.