Elgeyo Marakwet Programme Based Budget Estimates FY 2019-2020

FOREWORD
The contents of this 2019/20 FY Budget Estimates document is a culmination of justifications, recommendations and approvals from the other planning and budget documents required for compliance with the Public Finance Management Act, PFM, 2012 provisions. These planning and Budgeting documents include; County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP) 2018-2022, Annual Development Plan (ADP), County Budget Review and Outlook Paper (CBROP) and County Fiscal Strategy Paper (CFSP).
CIDP is a development framework for the county whose objectives includes; coordinated development, enhanced policy, planning and budgeting linkages, justified laws and policies and synergized development partnerships and collaborations. It is a five-year plan containing development priority to be funded through the county CRA allocations and Own Source Revenue sources, and from resource mobilization funds from donors and other non-governmental organizations. The five-year plans are broken further into the annual ADPs whose preparation entails prioritization of the contents of the CIDP into projects to be funded in each financial year. This prioritization is done through public participation forums in all Wards guided by the Equitable Development Act, EDA (2015) which allocates development funds to each Ward using a formula. CBROP analysis the expenditure trends and practices from the immediate previous financial year and uses the findings to make recommendations for considerations in the upcoming financial year’s budgeting process. CFSP on the other hand sets ceilings for all departments using the approved ADP for development ceilings and analysis of the wage bill and operations and maintenance as recurrent expenditure for all departments. This budget estimates therefore aggregates all these documents’ justifications and approved contents by the County Assembly.
The total budget envelope contained in this document for 2019/20 FY is Kshs 4,557,445,042 out of which Kshs 3,782,000,000 is sourced from the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) equitable share, Kshs 140,000,000 will be Own Source Revenue from local revenue and Kshs 635,445,042 will be from conditional grants from the national government, World Bank and other development partners. Development estimates in this budget amounts to 31% of the total allocation which is above the 30% development allocation requirement by PFM Act 2012 to attain fiscal responsibility level.