Influence of Locally Generated Revenue on Performance of County Governments in Kenya

Abstract

Revenue collected from sources such as trading licenses, market dues, fines, and fees was also declining tremendously to be effectively utilized to provide the required services to the public. This study seeks to establish locally generated revenue has an influence on 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 study found that that there is a positive and significant relationship between Revenue Generated by County Governments and Performance because it had a Pearson correlation coefficient (r) of 0.688 and a p- value of 0.000. This means that as Revenue Generated by County Governments increases there is an increase in Performance of counties.

Keywords: Revenue, cost, devolution and county Government.