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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.