Kajiado County Fiscal Strategy Paper 2018

Abstract

The 2018 Kajiado County Budget Review and Outlook Paper (CBROP) has been prepared in line with the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act 2012, Section 118. This CBROP is the sixth to be prepared by the County Government of Kajiado. It provides an analysis of fiscal performance of the 2017/18 Financial Year (FY) and outlines main economic development outlook as well as resource mobilization framework. The County adhered to the fiscal responsibility principles as stipulated in the PFM Act, 2012 Section 107, Sub-section (2) while implementing the 2017/18 budget. The budget had a total resource envelop of Ksh.8.2Billion which comprised of 5.8Billion equitable share, 1Billion local revenue, 0.38Billion conditional grants and 0.997Billion balance brought forward. Analysis revealed that, actual expenditure amounted to Ksh.6.7 billion reflecting an absorption rate of 81 percent. On the other hand, the total local revenue collected was Ksh.680Million reflecting an increase of 22 percent from the 2016/17FY where Ksh.557Million was collected.