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29th September, 2025
This is Virtual Session 4 of the Nairobi Eastern and Central Regional Budget Hub (NECHUB) Budget Champions Training Program 2025. In this crucial session, we demystify the County Fiscal Strategy Paper (CFSP)—the core document that dictates the size and priorities of your county’s annual budget. Our expert Christopher Kuria, Executive Director of the Action for Community Development Center and Nyandarua County Budget Facilitator, breaks down this essential piece of Kenya’s public finance system.
1) Why do Technocrats refer to the CFSP as “The Budget”
2) How the CFSP acts as the critical link between the national Budget Policy Statement (BPS) and the County Budget Review and Outlook Paper (CBROP).
3) The critical role the CFSP plays in dictating the final ‘size of the budget’ and how this impacts service delivery in your county.
This session is a must-watch for any Kenyan citizen, community leader or civil society organization seeking to understand, engage with and influence the budget process for better county development.
22nd September, 2025
County Budget Review & Outlook Paper (CBROP) Unpacked | NECHUB Webinar with Mary Mureithi (Tharaka Nithi County Budget Facilitator )
This is the third impactful session of Nairobi, Eastern and Central Regional Budget Hub (NECHUB)’s Budget Champion Graduation Program 2025! In this essential webinar, Mary Mureithi, Laikipia County’s Budget Facilitator and Assistant Programs Associate at Pathways Policy Institute, meticulously unbundles and unpacks the County Budget Review & Outlook Paper (CBROP). Mary guides participants through critical areas including:-
1)Performance Review
2) Fiscal Responsibility Principles
3)Future Budget Projections
4)Provisional Budget Ceilings
1st September, 2025
Workshop on County Public Participation Guidelines
Last week, the Nairobi Eastern Central Regional Budget Hub (NEC Hub) took part in a key workshop in Embu County.
Our NEC Hub Coordinator, Nelson Maina (Nelson WA Chapter Six), together with Faith Kiema (Kitui County Budget Facilitator), Sospeter Gitonga (Embu County Budget Facilitator), and Luciah Mbocha, actively engaged in discussions on the localization of the Reviewed County Public Participation Guidelines.
This was a significant step forward, building on the ongoing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiatives already being implemented in Kitui and Embu counties. We are excited to be part of this initiative, which will ensure these important guidelines are tailored to meet the specific needs of our communities.
Once officially launched, the guidelines will be made publicly available. NECHUB took the key action points from this workshop to implement across all 14 of our counties
8th August, 2025
Bi-Annual reflection and learning meeting
The bi-annual reflection and learning meeting is an opportunity for us to pause, reflect and learn. For several years now, Bajeti Hub has convened this learning forum that has also included our key partners, the regional budget hubs. This learning space has been dynamic in response to the context and the implementation periods and has continually helped to inform and shape interventions and our programming.
This year’s mid-point reflection will be an opportunity for us to reflect on the context we are operating in and its implications for our work, the sustainability of our work and how we are monitoring and documenting the work. In addition, we are also working on developing an approach to our learning, and this will start by developing an inquiry question. This is something that we’ll develop progressively.
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Exchange learning 2025
Bajeti Hub in collaboration with all the five regional budget hubs has just concluded this year’s exchange learning program which was hosted by the Nairobi Eastern Central Regional Budget Hub – NEC Hub in Nyeri. This is the first time that public finance practitioners from across Kenya’s 47 counties are coming together to share and document what it is we are learning about the space.
Members from the 5 regional hubs went for a series of field visits, where they got to interact with different government officials, service providers and citizen in Nyeri. The other hubs also had an opportunity to share their success stories that could benefit Nyeri county and the Central Economic Block at large.
The program provides an opportunity for members from the different regional hubs to interact and learn from the successes, challenges and unique strategies that the regional hubs are using in their budget advocacy.
A special appreciation goes to County Government of Nyeri and the Nairobi Eastern Central Regional Budget Hub – NEC Hub for hosting and organizing this year’s learning exchange.
Courtesy Call and Benchmarking
Ndirangu Gachunia is the CEC Department of Lands, Housing, Planning and Urban Development.He is also the CEO CEREB, Central Economic Region Bloc made up of the 10 Governors in the region
Nairobi, Eastern, Central, Coast, Rift, Lake and Northern regional budget hub and Bajeti Hub team paid him a courtesy call as we were to benchmark and learn from the implementation of the Conditional Grant KISIP 2
CFSP public participation in Nyandarua
Design thinking/Evaluation meeting with the budget facilitators
Nairobi Eastern Central Regional Budget Hub – NEC Hub held it’s semi-annual Design Thinking Review Meet-up at Kerugoya Courtesy of Bajeti Hub
This review meeting brought together Budget Facilitators and Champions across the 14 counties under NEC-HUB and was engineered to cultivate the culture of problem-solving and systems-thinking
We were taken through mapping out now ( the current reality) and envisioning the desired future, we were then tasked to identify the steps to take from where we are at to where we want to be.
The meeting focused on counties, delving deeper into budget work conducted by budget practitioners in 2024, this brought out the uniqueness of each county and the dynamic nature of the challenges they face. Understanding each of our Counties was to guide the Hub shape the 2025 activities
BAJETI HUB BENCHMARKING VISIT
The Chief Officer, Department of Medical Services and Public Health, Mr. Ibrahim Adan, hosted a team from Bajeti Hub, who were in the county for a benchmarking visit on the Health Services Fund (HSF).
Bajeti Hub is a Kenyan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that works to advance transparency, accountability, participation, and equity in national and sub-national budgeting processes, comprising of budget advocates fetched from across the country _ Nairobi, Eastern, Central, Coast, Rift, Lake and Northern Regional budget hubs. The team aims to visit Nyeri Town Health Centre and Mt. Kenya Level 4 Hospital for a learning experience.
The County Government of Nyeri, with approval from the County Assembly, enacted the Nyeri County Health Services Act in June 2021. Subsequently, the HSF management board was appointed and inaugurated on August 4, 2021, to oversee the fund’s implementation.
The fund’s primary objective is to ensure that health facilities have timely access to financial resources, making them more responsive to medical and public health emergencies.
In just three years, fund collections have grown from Ksh 342.3 million in FY 2021/22 to Ksh 748.5 million in FY 2023/24, with a target of Ksh 1 billion by FY 2026/27.
The Chief Officer highlighted the fund’s significant impact, emphasizing its role in improving the quality of healthcare services through timely access to essential drugs.
Additionally, the county supplements the Fund through county budget, supporting the procurement of medical equipment and addressing infrastructure needs in health facilities.
Present at the forum were the HSF Administrator, Moses Gachanja, County Health Management Team (CHMT) and the Bajeti Hub team, led by Dr. Abraham Rugo, Country Manager, and Nelson Maina, Nairobi–Eastern–Central Region Hub Coordinator.