In his book titled ‘Enterprise Risk Management, published by Wiley Finance in 2003, James Lam states that, “The only alternative to risk management is crisis management-and crisis management is much more expensive, time consuming and embarrassing.” Underpinning further the import of risk management, deloitte in a study paper of 2005, observed that, “Value-creating organizations focus…
Constitutionally, County Governments can impose property taxes, entertainment taxes and service fee and charges for the services they offer. According to the Commission of Revenue allocation report: County Own Source Revenue Report 2019, only 11 out of 47 counties can finance more than 10% of their overall budget which implies that the majority of the county…
County governments reveals massive wastage on ghost workers at the county offices. The problem of ghost workers on payroll is a pandemic for many counties in this nation. Billions of tax payer money is pumped out annually from the government to pay non-existent employees who have been fraudulently placed on the payroll systems of most…
Public Procurement roughly accounts for 25-30% of developing countries expenditures according to a World bank report on Strengthening Sustainable Public Procurement and therefore poses the highest corruption risk in developing countries. Procurements may range from frequent small and standardized Request for Quotations type, procurements of pens and computers, to large and more complex, albeit fewer…
Various reforms have taken place in Kenyan Public Space with an aim of improving the overall public sector management to make sure that utilization of available resource is effective and efficient to enable achievement of economic growth and to reduce the level of poverty. Public Financial Management Reforms Secretariat has been one of the major…
Automation has proved to be key in making sure service delivery within public sector is greatly enhanced. Talk about e-citizen, IFMIS and many others which have played a huge role in bringing better services to Kenyan Citizens. Ministry of health has not been left behind in making efforts of developing a single authoritative source of…
Various reforms have taken place in Kenyan Public Space with an aim of improving the overall public sector management to make sure that utilization of available resource is effective and efficient to enable achievement of economic growth and to reduce the level of poverty. Public Financial Management Reforms Secretariat has been spearheading the Reforms Agenda…
The masterplan for human resources management in the Kenyan Public Service has been developed following extensive consultations with a variety of stakeholders at both the Public Service Commission and the Ministries, Departments and Agencies. Surveys and subsequent data analysis was employed in the process of coming up with the masterplan which has been bench marked…
Upgraded Public Procurement Information Portal We are supporting the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority in Training procurement Officers on the upgraded Public Procurement Information Portal. The Portal was developed in July 2018 to enable Procuring Entities to comply with the Executive Order No.2 of Procurement of public Goods, Works, Services by Public Procuring Entities. Specifically the…
Did You Know? The implementation of the PFM Reform Strategy 2018-2023 is an essential step towards achieving the Vision 2030 objectives. It draws on an analysis of where structural challenges in the use of public funds undermine efficient service delivery. We are on track.