Socio-Economic Status of Kajiado County with COVID-19

Abstract

In Kajiado County total revenue has grew by an average of 24 per cent from Ksh 4.00 billion in 2013/14 to Ksh 10.71 billion in 2018/19. In 2019/20 and 2020/21, the county experienced a decline in its total revenue to Ksh 8.31 billion and Ksh 8.81 billion respectively due to significant decrease in its own source revenue (OSR). Analysis of the sources of revenue indicate that equitable share has been the main source of county funding accounting for more than 69 per cent of the total revenues. Conditional grants are also a major source of revenue for financing county operations and has been growing over the years. The County receives conditional grants from the National Government and development partners mainly from World Bank and Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), European Union (EU) and Sweden. The share of OSR to the total revenue has similarly been robust. On average, OSR contributed 10.13 per cent to total revenues between 2013/14 and 2020/21. At the end of 2020/21, pending bills amounted to 1,258.7 and no data was available for development and recurrent related pending bills. Generally, development expenditure related to pending bills have been greater than those related to recurrent expenditure on average accounting for 61.0 per cent of the pending bills portfolio. To ensure continued recovery, the county must now move quickly to tackle the problem of pending bills, mobilize more finances from OSR to increase the available revenues for budgetary operations, seek for more funding in form of grants from development partners to cater for the critical development projects in the county and ensure that the ongoing projects are completed before launching new project and clear any pending bills and arrears owed to suppliers.