The Institute for Research and Democratic Development (IREDD) has warned the government to take pragmatic steps to ensure that the national budget is informed by county level development priorities which are aligned with national level development goals and encourage active citizen’s participation in the budget formulation process. “You cannot achieve any meaningful development if over 80% of the current national budget is still spent on recurrent expenses. The IREDD boss revealed that the current budget formulation is from top to bottom with little or no input from the counties, because there is zero citizen participation in the way the budgets are formulated and the priorities which the national budget seeks to address. This will encourage debates on the budget in advance of the presentation of a more detailed Executive’s Budget Proposal. By laying out the budget’s broad parameters, the statement can help create appropriate expectations for the Executive’s Budget Proposal.

Source: Daily Observer May 03, 2019 02:30 UTC