Siaya County has successfully undertaken the third Annual Performance Assessment on Key Result Area 1 carried out by Independent Verification Assessor from the State Department for Devolution, Miss N’gendu Karanja.
KRA 1 in the KDSP II Program covers Disbursement linked indicators (DLI) 3and 4 in which;
DLI 3 requires participating counties to increase their OSR (Own Source Revenue) by at least 5% annually, over and above the rate of inflation while DLI 4 requires participating counties to reduce the stock of pending bills and it at minimal levels.
In DLI 3, Siaya county highlighted its Own Source Revenue performance for the financial years 23/24 and 24/25 by producing evidences of system print out, Automated Revenue Report, Monthly Revenue Report, 5 Revenue policies and laws and a Revenue mobilization strategy.
DLI 4 on pending bills required counties to produce Pending Bills Action plan for financial year 24/25 pending bills, approved budget, reconciled CBK statement, accumulated pending bills for financial years 23/24 and 24/25 and Budget implementation report.
Today’s assessment focussed on performance and DLI measures. KRA 2 will be assessed on 14th April, 2026 whileKRA 3 and Minimum Access Conditions performance will be assessed on 21st April, 2026.
This KRA support efforts towards enhancing financing and expenditure management by counties. This touches on development of frameworks and guidelines for improving counties own source revenue like increased revenue collection, enhanced accuracy of fiscal forecasting and expansion of revenue base.
Siaya County’s performance in the assessment of the three KRAs will determine the amount of money it will bag out of the Ksh 352 million, which is the maximum amount a county can receive. The amount Siaya will obtain in the Investment Grant Project will be invested entirely on Mother Baby Hospital Complex, a component of the proposed Siaya County Referral Hospital (level 5).
The exercise was spearheaded by the Chief Officer for Governance, Administration and ICT Mr. Walter Okelo and County Program Implementation Unit headed by the program coordinator, Mr. Peter Ligulu.
Your team was well organized and l am impressed by the manner in which the documentation of the evidences were orderly and overwhelming ' Miss Karanja in her closing remarks.
'I want to congratulate the cpiu team headed by Mr Ligulu for the handling the exercise with a lot of dedication and seriousness it deserves, we are on the right trajectory and we urge this team to continue with the same spirit even as we prepare for the next two forthcoming assessment next week and the week after ' said Mr Walter Okelo during the closing debriefing session.