Analysis of Public Participation on Budget Implementation in Kisii County Government, Kenya

Abstract

The budget is an integral energy in every facet of the economy of any country. Budgeting is a significant tool in corporate institutions for directing activities and employees’ efforts toward the organization’s common objectives or in actualizing corporate goals in defined timeframe. While the reform of bureaucracy was not initially considered to be a vital element of participatory budgeting programs, it has emerged as an unintended consequence that strongly influences the success of the process. Decentralization allows for targeted information to be provided to relevant groups. Through the branch offices, technocrats develop better ideas of the types of information   participants need to make informed choices. Information about drainage and water flows; citizens in the urban center require information about the costs and complexities of overhauling decaying infrastructure. Participatory budgeting contributes to administrative reform is by integrating different bureaucratic units into the policy-making and implementation processes. Administrative agencies such as the departments of health or education cannot operate as isolated units within the participatory budgeting process. They must work closely with the planning agency and with participatory budgeting participants to define their policy agendas. New investments cannot generally be undertaken without the explicit approval of participatory budgeting participants and implementation done in every stage. Budgeted results communicate to employees the organization’s expectations regarding their job performance, which is evaluated based on some comparison of actual versus budgeted results. Kisii County is no special case to spending plan failure and its execution which can be measured in terms of achievement needs. The purpose of the research was to analyse public participation on budget implementation in county governments in Kenya by taking a selected case of Kisii County. The study population was representatives of the populace of kisii and authorities of the Kisii County. A sample size of 105 respondents was used in the study while questionnaire was used as research tool. The study established that public participation positively and significantly influence budget implementation at r=.443** and p<.05 significant level. The study recommends that the County governments should create rules to support Economic and Social Rights Center, 2013 which demands the general population inclusion to incorporate their views in the County Integrated Development.

Keywords: Public participation, Budget implementation, Kisii County Government, Kenya.

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/11-29-09

Publication date:October 31^st 2019