Notes on sources

All the data on this website is from data published on the Treasury website (www.treasury.go.ke)

Budget Data

For Budget data we use data uploaded on the budget books page (https://www.treasury.go.ke/budget-books-1/)

Every set of budget books is provided in a set of 6 books. Each book contains different set of information. The books include

1. Development Budget Book 1 (Sample)
2. Development Budget Book 2 (Mostly road projects) (Sample)
3. Development Budget Book 3 (Sample)
4. Recurrent Budget Book 1 (Sample)
5. Recurrent Budget Book 2 (Sample)
6. Program Based Budget Book (Sample)

Program Based Budget

The Public Finance Management Act requires that all budgets be Program Based a shift from former budgeting practice of line based budget. The Program Based Budget is designed to emphasis objectives rather than inputs with clear objectives¹. This website was built on the same idea with us using the Program based budget as the basis of data on this site and then adding the budgets allocated to the project.

External Data

Treasury provides lots of information on Kenya's Public debt. However the debt data on this website focuses only on external debt that can be found on the external public debt register page (https://www.treasury.go.ke/external-public-debt-register/)

Because the way treasury presents its debt has been changing over the years, the data on our website has been pieced from reports from various years, this may result the amount of data available not being consistent as you move from one debt to another especially when it comes to currency used.