Notes on Sources
All the data presented on this website is sourced from publicly available information published by the National Treasury and Economic Planning. The objective of this website is to make this information easier to explore, search and understand.
Budget Data
Budget data used on this website is obtained from the Budget Books section of the Treasury website.
Each financial year the Treasury publishes a set of budget books containing detailed information on government spending. These books are usually released in six volumes, each covering different aspects of the national budget.
- Development Budget Book 1 (Sample)
- Development Budget Book 2 – mostly road and infrastructure projects (Sample)
- Development Budget Book 3 (Sample)
- Recurrent Budget Book 1 (Sample)
- Recurrent Budget Book 2 (Sample)
- Program Based Budget (PBB) Book (Sample)
Program Based Budget
The Public Finance Management Act requires government budgets to be prepared using a Program Based Budgeting (PBB) framework. This approach replaced the earlier line-item budgeting system.
Program Based Budgeting focuses on the objectives and outcomes of government spending rather than simply listing inputs such as salaries, equipment or administrative costs.
The structure of this website follows the same idea. The data is organised around:
- State Departments
- Programs
- Sub-Programs
- Projects
Budget figures from the development and recurrent budget books are then linked to these programs and projects to provide a clearer picture of how public funds are allocated.
External Debt Data
The National Treasury publishes detailed information on Kenya’s public debt through its Public Debt Management pages.
The debt data on this website focuses primarily on external public debt which is sourced from the External Public Debt Register .
Because the format used by the Treasury to publish debt data has changed over time, the dataset on this site has been compiled from reports across multiple years. As a result, the level of detail available may vary between individual loans, particularly in areas such as currency denomination and reporting formats.
County Allocation Data
Data on county allocations is derived from the County Allocation of Revenue Act and related bills, which determine how national revenue is shared with county governments.
The documents used on this website were obtained from the Kenya Law website.
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