Kiambu County Programme Based Budget 2019/2020

Abstract

The County Assembly is the main legislative organ of the county government. The main functions/mandate of the county assembly is to legislate, oversight over the county executive and any other county organs as well as representation of people in the County government. To achieve the foregoing there is need to build capacity of the members of the county assembly on legislation, oversight and representation roles. During the FY 2017/18, the county was allocated Kshs. 1,373,745,034 for the recurrent budget and Kshs. 8,000,000 for development. The County Assembly of Kiambu utilized its 2017/18 budgetary resources to implement various projects and activities. A wide range of outputs were realized, key among them: included refurbishment of the proposed staff and members canteen in the assembly, purchase of desk top computers for ward offices, official tablets for all MCA’S, conducting capacity building forums, report writing and passing of bills. The process of furnishing ward offices also kicked off though late just before the closure of the financial year. The challenges faced include but not limited to; delayed disbursement of funds; inadequate office space for staff, inadequate staff, slow transition from manual to e-procurement, down time of connectivity of ifmis, inadequate resources to undertake key activities like robust public participation…