Makueni County FY 2021-22 Half Year Budget Implementation Report

The Budget implementation report highlights progress made in implementation of the Makueni County Government Budget for the Financial Year 2021/2022, for the period ending 31st December 2021. It also presents the key challenges that faced budget implementation during the reporting period and appropriate recommendations to overcome these challenges.
The FY 2021/22 budget is the third to implement the CIDP 2018-22 and is anchored on the County Government agenda of socio economic transformation with a broad focus on community economic empowerment for increased household income.
In the first half of the Financial Year, the county has managed to mobilise revenues amounting to Kshs 3,903,809,764.39 representing 39 percent of the total budgeted revenues for the Year. The County had received 42% of the Equitable share, 35% of loans and grants and mobilized 28% of the targeted own source revenues.
The overall county expenditure for the period amounts to Kshs. 3,060,897,837.50 against a Revised Budget of Kshs 11,251,039,704.02 representing an absorption rate of 27 percent. The recurrent expenditures were kshs 2,532,673,766.65 against a revised budget of Kshs 6,979,637,023.54 which translated to an absorption rate of 36 per cent whereas the development expenditure amounts to Kshs 528,224,070.85 against a revised budget of Kshs 4,271,402,680.48 representing an absorption rate of 12 percent.