Public Participation and Budget Formulation in Pemba Municipality, Mozambique
| dc.contributor.author | Andre Joseph | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-02T12:09:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-03-02T12:09:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-12 | |
| dc.description | A Research Project Submitted to the School of Law, Arts and Social Sciences in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Master of Arts of Kenyatta University.December, 2025 Supervisor Wilson Muna | |
| dc.description.abstract | The need for greater public involvement in decision-making has rapidly gained attention from governments at different levels, civil society, and NGOs. A participatory budget is one of the most significant tools supporting inclusivity in the policy process. The Constitution of Mozambique, in article 263, establishes that local governance bodies must, in their operations, encourage and promote the use of available resources to guarantee citizens' active participation in the search for solutions to the problems of their communities. However, despite this legal provision, there is still a lack of participation by the public in the formulation of local government programs, projects, and policies, such as budget formulation. This research addresses how public participation impacts budgeting formulation and outcomes in Pemba municipality. Therefore, the research objectives were: Establish the influence of the existing public policies on the budget formulation of Pemba Municipality, determine the influence of the level of involvement of the public on the budget formulation in Pemba Municipality and establish the influence of the existing methods on the budget formulation in Pemba Municipality. Stakeholders’ theory supported the study, and a descriptive approach was applied with qualitative and quantitative methods to achieve the objectives above. A sample of 100 participants, distributed across the entire Pemba city municipality with ten neighborhoods were identified using a simple non-random probabilistic technique. The sample was extracted from the study's target population, the total number of 122652 people registered as voters in the 2018 electoral census. Then, semi-structured questionnaires were administrated to gather data from the participants. A deductive approach was applied for the analysis and interpretation of the qualitative data gathering, and quantitative was done through the help of the SPSS program. The study revealed that existing public policies have a significant and positive influence on budget formulation in Pemba Municipality. The results showed that the F-statistic's significance level (p-value) is 0.003, which is less than the usual cutoff of 0.05. This low p-value suggests that at least one of the predictors significantly contributes to explaining the variance in budget formulation, indicating that the regression model as a whole is statistically significant. The research concluded that the level of public involvement is a key determinant in the effectiveness and fairness of budget formulation in Pemba Municipality. The recommendations that Government of Mozambique should enhance existing public policies to further institutionalize public participation in budget formulation. This includes revising legal provisions to mandate structured participation at all stages of the budget cycle and ensuring that local governments like Pemba Municipality are empowered and obligated to implement these provisions consistently. Stakeholders and municipal leaders should adopt more inclusive strategies to increase the participation of marginalized and underrepresented groups, including women, youth, and rural residents. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/32615 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Kenyatta University | |
| dc.title | Public Participation and Budget Formulation in Pemba Municipality, Mozambique | |
| dc.type | Thesis |