Provident Community Initiative

, in partnership with Ajenda Kenya, hosted a one-day pre-budget inception meeting under the Strengthening Public Accountability and Responsiveness in Kenya program supported by We focused on evaluating previous budget advocacy efforts, examining transparency, accountability, and public participation, and discussing feedback mechanisms identified in the findings.

Key Highlights:
1.Unified advocacy for transparency and accountability, leading to more informed public participation.
2.Improved resource allocation and absorption, ensuring funds are utilized as planned.
3.Strengthened civic participation, fostering a culture of accountability and responsiveness.

Join us for the Regional Budget Café on Thursday, 20th June 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Theme: Building Synergies for Better Public Budgets

Connect with stakeholders from coastal counties, National government, CSOs and media for learning and exchange.

🚨 Provident Community Initiative actively engaged in the County Assembly of Mombasa's public participation on the Program Based Budget (PPB) for FY 2024/2025 on June 13th and 14th. Key issues we highlighted include:

🔹 Revenue Mobilization: The PPB lacks detailed information on Own Source Revenue (OSR) streams.

🔹 Project Transparency: The document does not specify proposed project names, locations, or allocated budgets for each department/program. This information is crucial for public monitoring and accountability.

🔹 Department of Water, Natural Resources, Public Works, and Climate Change Resilience: The department's budget heavily relies on a Kshs. 1B World Bank grant, with minimal local revenue sources detailed. Total budget: Kshs. 1.33B, but only Kshs. 330M (25%) from non-grant sources.

🔹 Fiscal Responsibilities: Estimated personnel costs are 43.7% of the total budget, exceeding the 35% cap set by the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act 2012, Section 107 while Development expenditure stands at 31.6%.

📢 We call for more transparency and adherence to fiscal regulations to ensure effective public participation and accountability.

Join our coordinator JosephineNyamai tomorrow at 7:30 AM on KBC's Good Morning Kenya for discussions on the 2024 budget.

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🌊📊 Provident Community Initiative, in partnership with the Coast Regional Budget Hub -CRBH with support from IBPKenya recently participated in the national government's public consultation on the Program Based Budget (PBB) for FY 2024/25. We highlighted critical issues such as unmet revenue targets, excessive spending, fiscal deficits, and soaring public debt. The memorandum collectively submitted called for realistic revenue targets, prudent expenditure reforms, thorough examination of fiscal deficits, and stringent debt management to foster sustainable development in the coming financial year.

Coast Regional Budget Garage on National Budget Estimates 2024/25

Join us virtually on Thursday, 16th May 2024, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM, as we discuss and deliberate on key budget proposals and ensure our region's interests are represented

key areas of discussion include health department, water department, Environment and climate change and exploring public debt and how it affects service delivery of basic services

Register here:https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tcO-oqz0tGdBtIz3oegmW44eRqDG3OQ_t

"At the end of the day, it is also about what we do in addition to what government ought to do. There is a role to be played and being informed on the processes is a step towards that. Do you know your role? What are you doing about it or what do you plan to do about it? '' - FaithAnn

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Supported by IBPKenya, the Mombasa-based met to review the County Fiscal Strategy Paper for FY 2024/2025. The key agenda was to understand the county's budget priorities, revenue collection performance & Projections, spending plans, and strategies.

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We honoured the call and engaged in the public participation process of the County Fiscal Strategy Paper ( CFSP) 2024/2025 and presented our memorandum.

Happy New Year!!!

We wish to notify you that our office is officially open after the holidays. Thank you.

Get to know more about upcoming engagements for the year 2024 by checking our social media pages

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We're taking a break from the 22nd, December, 2023 to 10th January, 2024, to celebrate and recharge for the New Year 🎅

During this time our offices will be closed, but our dedication to serving our community remains unwavering. Thank you for your incredible support, and here's to a joyous holiday season and a fantastic new year! ✨

🌟 honored the opportunity to represent the Coast Regional Budget Hub through the support of in the for the FY2024/25 by The National Treasury and Economic Planning 🏦💡at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies

QUARTERLY ECONOMIC & BUDGETARY REVIEW REPORT

The National Treasury has published the first Quarterly Economic and Budgetary Review Report in the FY 2023/24, available on its website: www.treasury.go.ke. The link to the report’s highlights:https://www.treasury.go.ke/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/First-QEBR-Report.pdf

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Thrilled to be part of the Coast Regional Budget Hub crucial stakeholders' meeting on Jumuiya Ya Kaunti Za Pwani - JKP performance since devolution. We dove deep into the county's revenue collection challenges and explored data-driven solutions. Exciting possibilities and best practices were discussed to boost the County's own source revenue collection Lenggo Local Empowerment KeBudgettalk IBPKenya

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Through the support from Uraia under the Strengthening Public Accountability and Response in Kenya Project, Provident Community Initiative in partnership with Ajenda Kenya held a roundtable meeting with the Director of Budget and Economic Planning. The meeting was centered around enhancing transparency in the budget process.

The key reference point in the meeting was the three previous County Budget Transparency Surveys done by IBPKenya where Mombasa County Government. has shown great progress in availing more budget documents from the 2020 survey. The discussion highlighted the need to strengthen partnership between the office, CSOs and enhancing feedback mechanism on memorandums sent by the public on matters relating budgets.

Highlights:
1️⃣The office being allocated an officer from the ICT department to support in timely budget document uploads.
2️⃣ Need to engage with the executive & the assembly branch of the County on having meaningful & timely public participation on key budget documents
3️⃣ The need to leveraging on technology to enhance citizens involvement on budget processes.
4️⃣ Strengthening partnership with CSOs and the county in conducting public participation on budget process
5️⃣ Boosting transparency by separately sharing participation reports on the County website.

Areas for advocacy :
¹1️⃣ Having a stakeholders conversation on the existing gaps in the country's budget cycle that affects counties adhering on the budget timelines.
2️⃣ The third revenue share formula which has negatively affected the County's equitable share.
3️⃣ The recently devolved functions from the national government with resource allocation gaps.

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