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The Commission is mandated under Article 216(4) to determine, publish and regularly review a policy setting out the criteria to identify marginalized areas for purposes of Article 204(2). In view of this mandate, the following are issues noted upon review of

The Commission made a presentation to the Senate on debt on Thursday 16th September in which it gave suggestions on how to mitigate the risk of debt distress. The Commission made the following observations and recommendations: 1. Kenya’s debt has increased

The Commission prepared its Medium-Term Budget for FY 2022/23 – 2024/25 on 16-20th August 2021. The process involved review of the previous budget, projected economic performance, alignment to constitutional timelines and promoting recovery after the COVID 19 pandemic. The process began

On 26th May 2021, the Commission launched two reports featuring Counties’ Own Source Revenue (OSR) efforts titled ‘Counties Efforts towards Revenue Mobilization: A Stock of the Last Six Years’ and Own Sources Revenue Training Guidelines at the Sarova Stanley Hotel. The

The 2021 Division of Revenue Act allocates the county governments an equitable share of Ksh. 370 billion in the financial year 2021/2022. The allocation is an increase of Ksh.53.5 billion from the Ksh. 316.5 billion allocated to the counties during the

By Staff Writer How have you been able to become the leader you are today? Where did your finance journey begin? What have you sacrificed (both personally and professionally) to succeed in your career? I was born and raised in a

The Commission was complemented by the National Treasury for receiving unqualified (clean) audit opinion from the Office of Auditor General for the financial year 2018/2019. (Period ended 30 June 2019)   But what is a clean audit? Why is it important?

The Research and Knowledge Management (RKM) Department trained staff on the use of STATA software. We interviewed the RKM Deputy Director Dr Naomi Mathenge on how it would help research in the Commission. What is STATA and what features are used

Our newsletter on Countie’s Own Sources Revenue is now out! View it here: https://online.fliphtml5.com/blfas/gcsp/  Happy reading! In our main story, we feature Commissioner Dr Irene Koech Asienga, where we highlight her life and journey on overcoming various barriers and reaching where

Tana River County takes its name from River Tana which is the longest river in Kenya. It is a county in the former Coast Province, Kenya with a population of 315,943 according to the 2019 census and an area of 35,375.8