Socioeconomic status of Mombasa County with COVID-19

Abstract

The county total revenue has significantly increased over the years as the government focusses on enhanced services to the citizens. Mombasa County total revenue grew by 88 percent from Ksh 6.26 billion in 2013/14 to Ksh 11.77 billion in 2020/21, an average annual growth rate of 12.57 per cent. Analysis of the sources of revenue indicate that equitable share from the National Government is the main source of county funding accounting for more than 60 per cent of the total revenues. Monthly cash transfers from the National Government has been exhibiting an increasing trend from January to June 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) and Sweden. During 2020/21, the County received Ksh 651.99 million and Ksh 577.13 million from National Government and Development partners respectively. Own Source Revenue (OSR) is also a major source of revenue in Mombasa County. On average, OSR contributed 25.76 per cent of the total revenue between 2013/14 to 2020/21. In 2014/15 the county reported Ksh 1,466.2 million in pending bills comprising of Ksh 1,052.9 and Ksh 413.3 in respect of recurrent and development spending respectively. To steer the county towards achieving its budgetary objective and development goals contained in the ADPs and CIDP, the following measures are proposed; 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.