Makueni County 2017-18 Budget Implementation Report

INTRODUCTION

The Budget implementation report highlights progress made in implementation of the Makueni County Government for the Financial Year 2017/18, ending 30th June 2018. It also presents the key challenges that faced budget implementation during the reporting period and appropriate recommendations to overcome these challenges.
The County Government had an original budget of Kshs 7,893,639,169.00 representing 66 per cent recurrent and 34 per cent development and a revised budget of Kshs 9,674,896,011.15 representing 63per cent recurrent and 37 per cent development. The Budget was the last to implement the CIDP 2013-2017 and was anchored on the County Government agenda of socio-economic transformation with a broad focus of ensuring ‘enough water for all Makueni residents.
The FY 2017/18 revised Budget was funded from four main sources mainly shareable revenue from the National Government of Kshs 6,825,200,000.00 FY2016/17 reallocation funds – Kshs 1,338,451,037.15, conditional allocations and grants Kshs 772,549,557.00 and projected own source revenues of Kshs 738,695,417.00. During the year FY 2017/18, the County Government received 100 percent, 64 percent and 44 per'cent of Shareable revenues, conditional allocations and grants and and own source revenues respectively. The total expenditure for the year amounted to Kshs 7,605,443,436.45 out of which Ksh 5,635,372,318.42 represents recurrent expenditure and Kshs. 1,970,071,118.03 represents development expenditure.
The overall absorption rate for the County Government was 79 percent. The recurrent and development absorption rates were 92 percent and 55 percent respectively.