Bulletins

The Citizen’s Alternative Budget contains budget proposals from the public and private sector stakeholders, who attended the IEA annual pre-budget hearings that took place on 27th and 28th January, 2021 virtually. The proposals submitted were consolidated and synthesized by the IEA according to the various Medium Terms Expenditure Framework (MTEF) sectors, largely based on their feasibility, whether they make economic sense and whether they are in line with the national priorities of the government. Furthermore, this alternative budget takes cognizance of the draft budget policy statement 2021/2022 as a pre-budget statement that sets the macroeconomic framework through which the government will prepare the forthcoming budget.

This report uses the first quarter of 2020/21 National Treasury’s Quarterly Economic and Budgetary Review (QEBR) Reports and Office of the Controller of Budget’s Quarter Budget Implementation and Review (BIRR) Reports to assess the budget performance of by the national government of Kenya against its own targets. In addition, the brief seeks to highlight key implementation challenges and gaps and proposes corrective measures.

This fact sheet  focuses on the first quarter of 2020/21 fiscal year and presents some key facts in response to the following four questions: What are the underlying macroeconomic conditions for the quarter? Is the national government budget implemented as approved and if not, what are the differences? What are the implications of this on service delivery and accountability to citizens? What factors are the causes of the national government’s inability to utilize their budgetary provisions? and What are the corrective measures towards improving budget execution?