Effect of Public Participation on Budget Implementation in the Devolved Government in Kenya: A Case of Garissa County
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Date
2023
Authors
Mohammed, Shuriye
Njoroge, Jane
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RJSSH
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to establish the effect of public participation on budget implementation in the
devolved government in Kenya taking a case of Garissa County. Specifically, the study looked at the effect of
public education, public input, public partnership and public interaction on budget implementation in the
devolved government in Kenya taking a case of Garissa County. The study adopted descriptive research
design. A total of 69 respondents were targeted by the study, which included ward and Sub County
administrators and CECs. Since the study intended to use primary data, the main source of research
instruments was a questionnaire. The questionnaire was structured to have closed questions. SPSS software
(V.24) was used to analyze the quantitative data which produced descriptive and inferential statistics. These
findings led to the conclusion that conducting public education, awareness creation, publicity and joint
workshops to a high extent is associated with a significant improvement on budget implementation in the
county governments in Kenya. The study also concluded that continued adoption of public inputs through
opinion surveys to gather citizen’s opinions on resource allocation as well as on the most pressing projects
that need financing, public forums to engage the citizens and online information sharing platforms is
associated with a significant improvement on budget implementation in the county government’s offices in
Kenya. The findings in the study led to enhancing public partnerships through involvement of the citizens in
planning for various projects to be financed as well as in management of various resources in the county,
securing public consent before engaging in some decisions which may affect the citizens. There is need for the
county leaderships in Kenya to ensure adoption of the requirement on public participation through enhanced
public education so as to improve the budget implementation process. There is also a need for the county
leaderships in Kenya to ensure adoption of the requirement on public participation through enhanced public
input so as to improve the budget implementation process. The study recommended that there need for the
county leaderships in Kenya to ensure adoption of the requirement on public participation through enhanced
public partnerships so as to improve the budget implementation process.
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Keywords
Public Education, Public Input, Public Partnership, Public Interaction, Budget Implementation
Citation
Shuriye,M.,& Njoroge, J.(2023). Effect of public participation on budget implementation in the devolved government in Kenya: Acase of Garissa County. Reviewed Journal of Social Science & Humanities, 4 (1), 108–123.