John Kinuthia

Public budgets best enable governments to sustainably tackle marginalization. With the 2026/27 budget underway, it's prime time to enhance disability services and implement the Persons with Disabilities Act, 2025. This piece spotlights key priorities for its formulation and rollout.

Programme Based Budgets (PBBs) in Kenya, adopted since FY 2013/14, improve budget planning by prioritizing effective services with clear targets. This guide reviews county PBBs, highlighting successes and improvement areas, based on legal requirements and global best practices.

The CFSP sets the total budget size and the resource envelope for the coming fiscal year, while establishing the broad county priorities to guide budget formulation and implementation for that year. This guide reviews county CFSPs, highlighting successes and improvement areas, based on legal requirements and global best practices.

This paper seeks to determine Kenya’s national climate adaptation funding over five years, noting transparency challenges, and plan future research on county spending and comprehensive climate finance analysis.