Siaya County Budget Review and Outlook Paper 2017/2018

Abstract

A review of organizational performance at the end of an operating year is a critical managerial concept. It provides an opportunity to reflect on the successes, failures and challenges experienced during the year as well as draw lessons from the challenges to inform future programming and project implementation. The BROP affords such an opportunity to government entities of which the County Government of Siaya is one. This BROP gives a detailed analysis of actual fiscal performance of the County Government of Siaya for FY 2017/18 against the approved budgetary allocations for the said FY. From the analysis, overall absorption rate for FY 2017/18 was 66.8 percent a declined by 12.2 percent from the previous fiscal year which had an absorption rate of 89 percent. Absorption rate of development budget was 11 percent of the total budget a decline from 62.7 percent for FY 2016/17. For recurrent expenditure absorption rate was 55.4 percent a decline from FY 2016/17 which was 110 percent. Local revenue collection realized 47 percent performance compared to 64 percent performance in the FY 2016/17 The low rate of absorption both for recurrent and development expenditure was attributed to the prolonged political tension after the 2017 general elections which caused disruption of business activities, inadequacy in county legislations hindered collection of revenue from other potential streams of revenue especially liquor licensing. Besides, stringent conditionalities imposed by the national treasury to access funds slowed down implementation of key programmes and projects.