Local Government Workplan Vote: 509 Hoima District Structure of Workplan Foreword Executive Summary A: Revenue Performance and Plans B: Summary of Department Performance and Plans by Workplan C: Draft Annual Workplan Outputs for 2016/17 D: Details of Annual Workplan Activities and Expenditures for 2016/17 Page 1 Local Government Workplan Vote: 509 Hoima District Foreword Delivery of services to the community of Hoima District is the prime responsibility of Hoima District Local Government. The Constitution of Uganda provides for decentralized local governance and that power belongs to the people. This also means that each one of us in the district has a responsibility to plan, mobilize and participate in the development process of the district to improve the socio-economic well-being of our people especially the rural poor. The District Council is very pleased to release this Annual Work plans and Budget for FY 2015/16. I urge the stakeholders and more especially the Heads of Departments to implement the outputs/activities planned and budgeted for. We acknowledge the technical assistance offered by the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development through the Output Budgeting Tool and training workshops. To all our partners and stakeholders including the District Council, all local councils at various levels, the district Heads of Departments, the CSOs, the Private Sector particularly those supporting us through their, Corporate Social Responsibility, the Faith Based Organizations, the line ministries and the Hoima community we highly urge you to use this Annual Work plans as a guide for the delivery of services to the people of Hoima district and we hope you will find it very useful. I wish to thank all departments and individuals who contributed to putting the Hoima District Local Government Annual Work plans and Budget for FY 2015/2016 together. In particular, I thank the Planning Unit as the Secretariat of the Budget Desk. I sincerely hope that the Annual Work plans will be implemented to bring about development in the development of the district. I once again call upon all the people in Hoima district to embrace the strategies and key outputs stated in the DDPII and annual work plans and apply them in the development and implementation of the district programmes and projects. While respective district departments have aligned their plans and strategies with the DDP II, I urge the private sector, civil society and other players in the district to work together with the District and to align their development efforts towards achieving the DDPII objectives and the district's vision. I wish to pledge that the district management will devote resources towards maintenance of the investments that have been planned for in this annual work plan. I wish to express my appreciation to all those who worked tirelessly to produce this Annual Work Plan for FY 2015/2016 FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY George Tinkamanyire Bagonza District Chairperson Page 2 Local Government Workplan Vote: 509 Hoima District Executive Summary Revenue Performance and Plans 2015/16 2016/17 Approved Budget Receipts by End Proposed Budget Dec UShs 000's 1. Locally Raised Revenues 1,343,316 1,042,016 1,835,221 2a. Discretionary Government Transfers 3,333,539 1,226,124 3,126,401 2b. Conditional Government Transfers 17,531,940 7,884,206 20,506,230 2c. Other Government Transfers 2,892,286 856,531 1,436,166 3. Local Development Grant 363,389 0 4. Donor Funding 720,671 353,132 846,119 Total Revenues 25,821,752 11,725,398 27,750,137 Revenue Performance in 2015/16 Revenue Performance Locally Raised Revenues are expected to fall below Projections arising from the government abolition of CESS on produce and fishing license. Local revenue collections for the period July - September 2015 were Shs 283 million, 21% thus 4% below target, despite the high performance of the Local Service Taxes and business licenses. This compares well with the same period of last year which was at 12%.e major Source of the underperformance was Property Related Duties / Levies. 50% of the annual budget estimates for both the Discretionary and Conditional Government Transfers from Government were received as planned, however, there was over performance of the other Government transfers (68% of the planned annual budget estimates) due to census 2014 funds that were sent to the district Donor funds to the district were only Ushs 44.3million, this constitutes about 18% of the total budgeted donor funding for the financial year 2014/15. Considering performance by department, the total disbursement rates were as follows: Administration 54%, Finance 30%, Statutory Bodies 41%, Production and Marketing 38%, Health 45%, Education 50%, Roads and Engineering 48%, Water 41%, Natural Resources 30%, Community Based Services 31%, Planning Unit 95%, Internal Audit 33% Planned Revenues for 2016/17 The total resource inflows in FY 2016/17 are projected to amount to Shs. 27.7bn; these are comprised of Shs 1.327bn from locally raised revenues, Shs 24.9bn of CG transfers and Shs 746 million from donor support. Therefore, overall revenues will grow by a meager 7.5% from the FY 2015/16 estimates. Local revenues will account for about 6.6% of the total budget Expenditure Performance and Plans 2015/16 2016/17 Approved Budget Actual Proposed Budget Expenditure by UShs 000's end of Dec 1a Administration 2,215,263 1,175,373 3,411,527 2 Finance 516,127 330,706 895,229 3 Statutory Bodies 3,775,101 1,006,069 935,368 4 Production and Marketing 460,422 114,604 757,920 5 Health 4,031,097 2,239,495 4,928,836 6 Education 11,318,718 4,958,029 13,006,349 7a Roads and Engineering 1,935,393 478,359 1,416,889 7b Water 501,250 43,547 966,375 Page 3 Local Government Workplan Vote: 509 Hoima District Executive Summary 2015/16 2016/17 Approved Budget Actual Proposed Budget Expenditure by UShs 000's end of Dec 8 Natural Resources 108,362 26,178 283,571 9 Community Based Services 680,101 109,165 710,875 10 Planning 220,017 41,815 333,522 11 Internal Audit 59,902 19,204 120,756 Grand Total 25,821,752 10,542,544 27,767,218 Wage Rec't: 12,240,563 6,522,342 14,714,606 Non Wage Rec't: 10,027,131 3,438,518 9,169,926 Domestic Dev't 2,833,386 464,969 3,036,567 Donor Dev't 720,671 116,715 846,119 Expenditure Performance in 2015/16 Out of the Approved Budget of Ushs 23.257 billion, a total of Ushs 6.360 billion was realized representing 27% of the Approved Budget and Ushs 5.948 billion was spent translating into a 95% absorption rate Ushs 6,278 billion released. This shows that Ushs 81.448 million is not yet released to departments, these funds are under the LGMSD. Ushs 330.827 million was not utilized by the departments in Quarter 1 as shown on the bank reconciliation statements, and will be utilized in the subsequent Quarters. The high release performance of other government transfers (44%) is on account of higher than planned releases for the Census activities that were undertaken in Quarter 1. On the other hand the low realization of locally raised revenues which is 15% is due to a delay in awarding of contracts to revenue sources; the under performance in Donor Funding (12%) was because the donors usually effect releases at the beginning of the calendar in tandem with their Fiscal Years. In terms of release performance generally all departments demonstrated strong absorption capacity by the end of September with the exception of Water, Statutory Bodies and Roads who performed at 28%, 70% and 79% respectively, the absorption in the rest of the expenditure departments was high exceeding 90%. Statutory Bodies only spent 70% of their release, the difference was for procurement of a Council Van which is still awaiting approval by the MoPS. Roads had spent 79% of the funds released because the recruitment of road gangs was done late in August. Water recorded the lowest absorption because of the delay in the award of contracts in the water sector. Planned Expenditures for 2016/17 In line with the DDP, Hoima DLG priorities for the FY 2016/17 will focus on the expansion of production of goods and services to enhance social well being. Significant changes to resource allocations is mainly under Administration where there has been a 53% increase due to provisions for pensions and gratuity; Statutory Bodies where there has been a 75% reduction due to the removal of the pensions provisions and a 15% increase in Education due to salary enhancement. Challenges in Implementation The District is facing a number of constraints and challenges in implementing future plans, projects and programmes, the major ones are outlined below: 1. High turnover of technical staff in pursuit of opportunities elsewhere leading to inadequate capacity especially among lower local councils; 2. Insufficient funding for maintenance and construction of basic physical infrastructure; and poor maintenance culture leading to poor servicing of investments; 3. Lack of means of transport and other equipments and logistical support in almost all departments; 4. Limited availability of trained health personnel especially doctors for recruitment, coupled with inadequate staff accommodation and equipment for surgeries, hence minimum staffing levels are yet to be attained: 5. Hard to reach and stay areas like in Buhuka, Kibiro and Tonya along the Lake Albert shoreline make it difficult to attract and retain staff; 6. Cheap technologies for provision of water are running out leaving the district with the option of only expensive technologies like deep boreholes and powered water schemes; and Page 4 Local Government Workplan Vote: 509 Hoima District Executive Summary 7.