Kisumu County has been ranked second with 16.5 percent in dissemination of sub-national open budget, Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) reports can have revealed.
In a survey done in 10 counties by Institute of Economic Affairs in partnership with World Bank, Nakuru County is ranked the first with 28.5, while the least in ranking is Mombasa County with 9 percent in terms of public participation and budgetary information access.
The pilot survey was done in Kisumu, Bungoma, Nandi, Kajiado, Nakuru, Nyeri, Mombasa, Taita Taveta and Garissa.
Speaking at a Kisumu hotel, IEA manager Duncan Otieno said in the pilot programme, none of the 10 counties attained the average ranking in the provision of county budget information.
“The study was about promotion of transparency on issues of urgent transparency where public were involved, procurement issues and oversight," said Otieno.
“The World Bank wanted to find out to what extent counties are adhering to the basic minimum transparency,” he added.
He said that during the survey, they looked at the availability of the budgetary documents, and whether Kisumu residents took part in public participation process.
“What are the channels of participation and in terms of service delivery reports? Whether there are procurement plans in the 10 counties because we know there are challenge of long bureaucratic procurement process,” he added.
He said most projects fail to be implemented because of the long bureaucratic procurement.