Influence of Funding from National Government on Performance of County Governments in Kenya

Abstract

Fiscal decentralization encompasses all that appertains to how the National Government and county governments relate to each other when it comes to Money. This includes the kind of revenue allocated by the Central Government to County Governments. This study assesses whether funding from National Governments influence the performance in County Governments in Kenya. The current study took a descriptive design, which involved assessing whether funding from National Governments influence the performance in County Governments in Kenya. For the purpose of this study the target population comprised of all 47 County Governments in Kenya. Sampling frames was done for 5 County Governments as per the Kenya 2010 Constitution. Descriptive statistics was used to determine the relationship between the dependent and the independent variables These statistics includes mean, median, mode, skewedness, range, standard deviation, kurtosis and percentages. The data was presented in form of tables, pie charts, column and bar graphs. The found that that there is a positive and significant relationship between Revenues Received from National Government and Performance because it had a Pearson correlation coefficient (r) of 0.734 and a p- value of 0.000. The study found that the County Government receives funding from National Government. Majority of respondents were aware that there was amount of funds received by the County Government.

Keywords: Devolution, Revenue, Decentralization, administrative, fiscal and political.