Kwale County Programme Based Budget 2018/2019

Abstract

This is the first Kwale County MTEF Budget to be tabled in the County Assembly of Kwale under the MTEF period 2018-2012. This document is prepared in consistent with the requirements of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), 2012 regarding county budgets preparation. Budget implementation over the past four years has had challenges mainly arising from delays in release of exchequer issues from the National Treasury, long public procurement procedures and under collection of local county own revenues below the set targets. Despite these challenges tremendous progress was made in county expenditure performance. The major risk to our fiscal plan will be the anticipated exponential growth of the wage bill resulting from the implementation of salary increases by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission and continued recruitment of employees in essential county service areas .We intend to mitigate this by undertaking intensive expenditure rationalization to save on funds and also intensify efforts to increase our county own revenue collection. Our tradition in budget preparation has been through the collaborative efforts of all county departments and agencies. Public participation which informs greater part of this budget was carried in April 2018 by the County Executive and later in June 2018 by the Budget and Appropriations