Meru County Budget Review and Outlook Paper 2018

Abstract

This is the Fourth County Budget Review and Outlook Paper (CBROP) for the County and has been prepared in accordance with the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), 2012. The Paper reviews and analyses actual fiscal performance of the 2016/17 Financial Year (FY) while presenting the recent economic developments. Further, it provides updated forecasts with sufficient attention to changes from the projections outlined in the 2016 County Fiscal Strategy Paper (CFSP). It also looks at the overview of how the actual performance of the FY 2016/17 budget impact on compliance with the fiscal responsibility principles and the financial objectives as detailed in the 2016 CFSP.