Kisumu County Budget review and Outlook Paper 2018/2019

Abstract

This County Budget Review and Outlook Paper (CBROP), prepared in accordance with the Public Finance Management Act, 2012 under section 118 is the sixth to be prepared under the new dispensation and the second one in the second term of the County Government. It presents the recent economic developments and actual fiscal performance of the FY 2018/2019 and makes comparisons to the budget appropriations for the same year. It further provides updated forecasts with sufficient information to show changes from the projections outlined in the latest County Fiscal Strategy Paper (CFSP), released in April 2019. In this Paper, we will also provide an overview of how the actual performance of the FY 2018/2019 affected the County’s compliance with the fiscal responsibility principles and the financial objectives as detailed in the 2019 CFSP.