IEA Pre-Budget Hearings Fiscal Year 2019/20
| Post date: Thu, Feb 7, 2019 |
| Category: Budget |
| By: Oscar Okoth, |
IEA has made it a tradition to encourage the corporate, social sector as well as other interested groups; to participate in the budget making process by submitting their budget proposals to be included in the budget statement by the treasury and on the 6th and 7th February 2019, the Public Finance Programme successfully held its 18th annual pre – budget hearings forum on at the Sarova Stanley in Nairobi.
These hearings saw a range of proposals received from the corporate sector: Agriculture; Water, Sanitation and Hygiene; Transport Sector; Taxation and Energy while the Social Sector saw representation from Health, Art and Culture, Water and Sanitation and the Informal Sector. All the budget proposals presented during the pre-budget hearings were consolidated and synthesized into a memorandum principles and Proposals dubbed “Citizens’ Alternative Budget”, and forwarded to the treasury for consideration in the forthcoming budget.
IEA Pre-Budget Hearings Fiscal Year 2019/20
| Post date: Thu, Feb 7, 2019 | | Category: Budget | | By: Oscar Okoth, |
IEA has made it a tradition to encourage the corporate, social sector as well as other interested groups; to participate in the budget making process by submitting their budget proposals to be included in the budget statement by the treasury and on the 6th and 7th February 2019, the Public Finance Programme successfully held its 18th annual pre – budget hearings forum on at the Sarova Stanley in Nairobi.
These hearings saw a range of proposals received from the corporate sector: Agriculture; Water, Sanitation and Hygiene; Transport Sector; Taxation and Energy while the Social Sector saw representation from Health, Art and Culture, Water and Sanitation and the Informal Sector. All the budget proposals presented during the pre-budget hearings were consolidated and synthesized into a memorandum principles and Proposals dubbed “Citizens’ Alternative Budget”, and forwarded to the treasury for consideration in the forthcoming budget.
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