County Budget Archive | Kenya | International Budget Partnership

This page contains archived material related to Kenya county budgets.

Research and Analysis

2017

Are the Taps Dry? Cash Flow in Kenya and the Implications for National and County Spending (August 2017)
2016/17 Budget Implementation in Kenya: Improving Performance, Continuing Transparency Challenges (July 2017)
Glass Half Full? Kenya’s County Budget Implementation in 2015/16 (May 2017)

2016

Kenya: How Much for Counties in 2017/18? The Commission on Revenue Allocation Versus the National Treasury (Paper, December 2016)
Deliberating Budgets: How Public Deliberation Can Move Us Beyond the Public Participation Rhetoric (Paper, February 2016)

2015

Devolution in Kenya: The Establishment of County Budget and Economic Forums (November 2015)
Budget Brief No. 32: How Much Does it Cost to Run My County? (September 2015)
Understanding and Engaging with Budget Implementation (March 2015)

2014

Kenya County Budget Analysis (July 2014)
County Budget and Economic Forums (CBEFs) and Public Participation in Kenya (November 2014)
The 47 County Budgets 2013/14
County Budget Analysis 2013/14
Proposal for Ward-Level Budget Hearings: Kenya County Budget Process 2014/15 (March 2014)
How Do We Make County Budgets Useful to the Public? What Common Sense and Good Practice Tell Us (Budget Brief, March 2014)

2013

Public Participation in Kenya: County Budget and Economic Forums – Principles and Options (Budget Brief, December 2013)
Toward Public Participation in the County Budget Process in Kenya: Principles and Lessons from the Former Local Authority Service Delivery Action Program (LASDAP) (Budget Brief, November 2013)
County Budgets: How Do We Know If There Is Enough Money to Maintain Key Services? (Budget Brief, August 2013)
Fair Play: Inequality Across Kenya’s Counties and What It Means for Revenue Sharing (Budget Brief, August 2013)

Resources and Tools

2016

County Heads of Budget Meeting Rapporteur’s Report (September 2016)
In September 2016 IBP Kenya organized the second national convening of county Heads of Budget, convening budget directors, planning directors, economists, and budget officers from Kenya’s 47 counties to resolve outstanding issues from last year’s meeting and to discuss emerging concerns.
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Quarterly Kenya County Budget Implementation Report Template (May 2016)
This citizen-centered template provides guidance for Kenya counties to produce quarterly budget implementation reports as required by Section 166 of the Public Finance Management Act 2012 in a format that is useful to county assemblies and to the public.
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2015

Kenya’s Budget Calendar: National and County (Budget Map, December 2015)
How Does Public Money Get Spent in My Ward Under the Devolved System? (Review, November 2015)
County Heads of Budget Meeting – Rapporteur’s Report and Summary of Resolutions (September 2015)
The Budget Process in Kenya: National and County Level (Infographic, updated June 2015)
Reading Office of the Controller of Budget’s County Reports (Training guide, March 2015)
Three Questions to Ask About Each Key County Budget Document (Presentation, March 2015)
Sector Hearings: What Role in the Budget Process? (January 2015)

2014

20 Key Questions About Your County Budgets (July 2014)
What Is the County Fiscal Strategy Paper? (Training exercise, February 2014)
County Fiscal Strategy Paper presentation (Presentation, February 2014)

2013

16 Key Questions About Your County Budget (Training guide, December 2013)
A Popular Guide to County Planning and Budgeting (Training guide, December 2013)

Joint and Partner Work

2015

Guidelines on Formation of the County Budget and Economic Forum (March 2015)

2014

Toward Better County Fiscal Strategy Papers in Kenya: A Review (Budget Brief, June 2014)
Analysis of the Uasin Gishu County Fiscal Strategic Paper (May 2014)
Comments on the Uasin Gishu County Fiscal Strategic Paper (February 2014)

2013

Learning By Doing: Toward Better County Budgets in 2014/15 (December 2013)
Public Participation Under Kenya’s New Public Financial Management Law and Beyond (Budget Brief, August 2012)
A Popular Guide to County Planning and Budgeting (December 2013)

Media Statements & Press Coverage

2016

CSOs Launch County Budget Implementation Report Template (Press Release, May 2016)
Somewhere Along the Bumpy Road: Democratizing Public Finance in Kenya (Policy op-ed by Jason Lakin, January 2016)

2015

Experts Fault Push for More County Cash (Standard Digital, 30 April 2015)
Budget: We’re Busy Focusing on the Nail Polish on the Left Foot of an Elephant (Op-ed by Jason Lakin, 21 March 2015)

2014

Sources of Revenue for Kenyan Counties Infographic (October 2014)
Monies to the County: Why Governors Insist on a 45% Fund Allocation (KTN Kenya, September 2014)
County Allocation Analysis: The Facts and Fiction on the County Allocation (KTN Kenya, September 2014)
Revising the County Allocation Formula (Op-ed by Jason Lakin, 27 July 2014)
Let a Thousand Small Projects Bloom: CDF State of Mind Has Kenya in Its Grip (Op-ed by Jason Lakin, 26 July 2014)
How many health workers are there? The answer is blowing in the wind (Op-ed by Jason Lakin, 5 April 2014)
A county’s fiscal strategy paper is the soul of budgeting past, present, future (Op-ed by Jason Lakin, 22 March 2014)
County governments rush to table fiscal strategy paper (Op-ed by Jason Lakin, 27 February 2014)
Counties aren’t to blame for high wage bills; give them a break (Op-ed by Jason Lakin, 25 January 2014)

2013

Kenya: Devolution 101 – Making Sense of County Budgets (Op-ed by Jason Lakin, 11 October 2013)
Ten Questions about My County Budget (Op-ed by Jason Lakin, 18 August 2013)