The Council of Governors (CoG) says County governments have played a key role in delivering vital services, developing local economies, giving communities a voice through robust public participation and helping them shape the environment within which they live.
Contrary to cynics, CoG vice chairman John Mruttu said works from County governments is proof that devolution is not mere window dressing.
He said devolution was real power, real resources and real engagement of communities.
"County governments have brought health services closer to the people and provided affordable medical care. They have given every child an opportunity to benefit from pre-primary education and childcare facilities,'' Mruttu said during the CeCs conference dubbed: 'The County Executive Ministers Conference' at Kipsigis Girl's High School, Kericho County, Tuesday.
He said there was commitment to fix the labour system, for young people to get equipped with competent skills to join the workforce through self-employment, and to prepare them for the competitive global market.
"With devolution, farmers have been protected from cartels and unscrupulous agents and there is provision of subsidised farm inputs. Indeed it is the unique and individual strength of all the County governments that will deliver that coveted promise of change to every Kenyan,'' added the Taita Taveta governor.
Mruttu told participants at the conference that devolution had taken off in earnest and that each County has a story of growth and change that needs to be told.
He said full implementation of devolution was a constitutional requirement that the counties, the national government and other partners and stakeholders should pursue to achieve.
"In turn, any legal, policy, institutional measures taken to implement devolution must give effect to the constitution of Kenya,'' he said.
The two-days conference ended December 6, 2016.