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    "content": "increase is mainly due to the salaries for the new recruitment of staff and funding of the Mau Forest Complex Taskforce activities. For my Ministry to operate efficiently and effectively, and to address the challenges it is currently facing, I submitted to the Public Administration Sector and the Treasury a budget request of Kshs3,161,700,000 for the 2009/2010 Financial Year. That figure included an amount of Kshs2,361,700,000 and Kshs800 million for Recurrent and Development Votes, respectively. However, I have only been allocated a net Recurrent budget of Kshs1,275,200,000. I am expected to collect Kshs100,000 as Appropriations-in-Aid during the same period. The net Recurrent allocation, therefore, represents 40.3 per cent of my initial budget request, leaving a shortfall of 60 per cent. For the Development budget, my Ministry has been allocated Kshs392,432,932, which represents 41.9 per cent of the initial budget request of Kshs800 million. That, therefore, implies that I shall substantially scale down my programmes. It basically means that unless the shortfall is met at revised estimates level, 60 per cent of the Ministry’s planned activities will be postponed. That is regrettable because those activities are catalysts to the overall performance of the country’s development agenda. Out of the net recurrent sum of Kshs1,275,200,000, personnel emoluments account for Kshs285,998,998 only. That amounts to 22.43 per cent, while operations and maintenance accounts for Kshs989,201,002, which is 77.57 per cent. Hon. Members may note that a substantial staffing requirement, which is approved, has not been recruited especially for the delivery unit. That will scale up the personal emolument figure. The ratio, however, is in favour of “O” and “M”. This year’s budget is programme-based. The Ministry has one broad programme, which is coordination and supervisory services. Under that programme, we have the following seven sub-programmes. There is coordination services, supervisory services, monitoring and evaluation services, political and Parliamentary affairs, communications and Press services, performance contracting management and public sector transformation. The seven-sub programmes will utilize a net allocation of Kshs1,667,632,932 for the implementation of the main activities of the programmes. Hon. Members, over the past one year, my Ministry has faced a number of challenges in service delivery. That is due to the slow and intricate processes of organizational and system set up, lack of sufficient financial human resource deployment as well as insufficient office accommodation which are a prerequisite to effective and efficient service delivery. They have been a major hindrance. Though the funding levels are not adequate to implement all the Ministry’s planned activities, I wish to reiterate not only my commitment, but also that of the officers in my Ministry, to put into proper use those funds and accord Kenyans value for their money for the services which they so much desire. My Ministry, though not an implementing one, is involved in a number of coordination and supervisory functions. I have to prioritize some programmes and do the implementation processes in phases."
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