Garissa County Fiscal Strategy Paper 2015

Abstract

The 2015 County Fiscal Strategy Paper is meant to ensure effective linkage between policies, planning and budgeting. It provides an updated resource envelop after the County Budget Review and Outlook Paper (CBROP). It presents a fiscal framework over the medium term. It also sets firm sectoral and programme ceilings in line with indicative ceilings outlined in the CBROP. This CFSP promotes fiscal discipline as well as transparent resource allocation criteria which should work towards reducing poverty levels and stimulating employment by re-focussing expenditure to the high impact areas. This is critical since the county’s demographic composition show that the youth constitutes the highest proportion of the unemployed...