The impacts of participatory budgeting process on resource allocation: the case of Kiambu County Government, Kenya
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Date
2014
Authors
Njeri, Naomi Wanjiru
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
The Local Authority Service Delivery Action Plan (LASDAP) and Constituencies Development
Fund (CDF) have been the main vehicles of community participation at the local level. A major
weakness in the CDF Act has been the lack of clear mechanisms for the community to participate
in decision making. Whereas these mechanisms exist under the very elaborate LASDAP
framework revised in 2009, empirical studies have established that there exists a gap between
policy and practice. With the adoption of Kenya Constitution (2010) local authorities have been
replaced by Counties and the Constitution further establishes concept of public participation in
the County budget process. This requirement is further reinforced by the Public Financial
management Act, 2012. Together, the two documents provide for civic participation in public
financial affairs, however both documents are rather vague on the process of public participation
thus entrusting counties to institutionalize process of public participation in the budget process.
Given the previous failures of CDF and LASDAP to inform public participation at local level,
this study therefore aims at assessing; the environmental design features, processes and
mechanisms of participatory budgeting process in Kiambu County. The environmental design
features considered in this study will include structure and form of government and population
heterogeneity. Process features will entail timing of participation, type of budget allocation and
gathering of input from citizen. In addition assessment of mechanisms will entail assessing
various methodology of participation including voting and consensus building. The study further
aims at developing predictive model of PB. The study will adopt a case study design and
incorporate method of expert evaluation to assess the impacts of participatory budgeting on
resource allocation. Data will be collected through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews
and will be analyzed through use of both qualitative and quantitative methods. Finally the study
will estimate a logistic regression model to predict presence ofPB.
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Department of Public Policy and Administration