Local Government Workplan Vote: 539 Moyo 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 2015/16 D: Details of Annual Workplan Activities and Expenditures for 2015/16 Page 1 Local Government Workplan Vote: 539 Moyo District Foreword The Local Governments Act 1997 and amended in 2001 consolidated and streamlined the previous laws on Local Governments in line with the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda to give Decentralization policy. This policy aims at shiting responsibilities for development to Local Authorities, improving local democracy, accountability, efficiency, equity, effectiveness and sustainability in the development and provision of services. Section 36 of the Act gave authority to the District Local Councils to plan, manage and sustain their own development for effective service delivery to the community. This Budget Framework Paper 2014/2015-2016/2017 of Moyo District is therefore a response to meeting this important obligation.There were remarkable achievements, successes and gains made in the previous financial year in all the sectors of which these were the key outputs and impacts that deserved reporting under the below enlisted sections. The District Managed to improve functionality of health facilities through construction of staff houses and latrines, supplied school furniture to ensure adequate provision for sitting, constructed additional classrooms in under served areas, rehabilitated key road links and drilled additional boreholes in water stresses areas The major focus in FY 2014-2015 shall be on ensuring fuctionality of the existing facilities like primary schools, health, administrative structures , District Access Roads, Community Access Roads and water points District Chairman Moyo Signed ______________________ Date_____________________ Page 2 Local Government Workplan Vote: 539 Moyo District Executive Summary Revenue Performance and Plans 2014/15 2015/16 Approved Budget Receipts by End Proposed Budget Dec UShs 000's 1. Locally Raised Revenues 885,188 366,111 1,161,100 2a. Discretionary Government Transfers 2,276,797 927,995 1,796,778 2b. Conditional Government Transfers 13,281,718 6,197,852 13,572,699 2c. Other Government Transfers 1,402,943 692,239 1,291,218 3. Local Development Grant 1,098,834 539,000 921,835 4. Donor Funding 562,178 152,985 583,800 Total Revenues 19,507,658 8,876,182 19,327,429 Revenue Performance in 2014/15 Out of total Uganda Shillings 885,188,000, Uganda Shillings 366,111,000 (41.4%) was the actual receipt. Most of the local revenue sources performed below expected 25% due to inadequate staffing at Lower Local Governments to enforce collection. The District had planned cumulative Budget of total Uganda Shillings 18,060,292 from Central Government and the total disbursment was Uganda Shillings 8,426,350,000 represnting 46.7%. This under achievement was due low performance of some grants like Tertiary salaries at 19%, District Un Conditional Grant wage at 18% due to some staff leaving the district, Sanitation and hygiene grant at 3%. However, some funds like Urban un conditional wage over performed at 42% because there was under budgeting for Moyo Town Council staff. Out of total Uganda Shillings 562,178,000, Uganda Shillings 152,985,000 (27.2%) was the actual receipt. This was because only UNICEF, Cater Centre and NTD met their financial obligations. While BAYLOR , WHO, Global Fund and Sutain did not disburse funds to district Planned Revenues for 2015/16 Total planned revenue for FY 2015-2016 is Uganda Shillings 19,327,429,000 compared to FY 2014-2015 of Uganda Shillings 19,507,658,000 indicating a reduction of 1 0% in revenue budget. The FY 2015-2016 total revenue has declined by Uganda Shillings 180,225,000 . The major resaon for this reduction is decline in Discretionary allocation of District Un Conditional Grant and District Equalization Grant which was affected by recent National Population and Housing Census results. The other major reason was centralization of NAADS funds .Secondly there was some slight increase in Donor funds due allocation from COCTU for tsetse control activities The total Local revenue of the district is Uganda Shillings 1,161,101,000 (5.46%)of the total District Revenue Budget . Out of total Local Revenue of Uganda Shillings 1,161,101,000, Uganda Shillings 138,506,000 (13.85%) is Taxes and Ugnda Shillings 1,022,595,000 (86.15%) is Non taxes . The Local revenue increased from Uganda Shillings 807,336,000 in FY 2014- 2015 to Uganda 1,161,101,000 in FY 2015- 2016. Out of total Central Government Transfer of Uganda Shillings 17,7582,429 000, Uganda Shillings 13,572,598,000 is Conditional Grant, Uganda Shillings 1,796,,778,000 is dicretionary, Uganda Shillings 1,291,218,000 is Other Central Government Transfers and Uganda Shillings 921,835,000 is Local Government Management and Service Delivery Programme. There has been some significant change in the Indicative Planning Figures of Central Government Transfers due to non inclusion of Road Emergency Fund from Uganda Road Fund, NAADS funds have been centralized and LGMSD reduced to decline in population figures . The Transfer reduced from Uganda Shillings 18,060,292,000 in FY 2014-2015 to Uganda Shillings 16,723,345,000 in FY 2015-2016. Total amount of Donor Funds committed to District Budget support is Uganda Shillings 583,800,000 and all these funds are for supporting health care. The Donor Budget is only 3.04% of the total District Budget. Donor funds has increased slightly due the funding from COCTU for tsetse control activities in emergency araes Expenditure Performance and Plans 2014/15 2015/16 Approved Budget Actual Proposed Budget Expenditure by UShs 000's end of Dec 1a Administration 1,385,023 629,566 1,395,253 2 Finance 575,438 262,660 445,024 Page 3 Local Government Workplan Vote: 539 Moyo District Executive Summary 2014/15 2015/16 Approved Budget Actual Proposed Budget Expenditure by UShs 000's end of Dec 3 Statutory Bodies 604,477 270,933 1,442,997 4 Production and Marketing 955,911 201,532 576,589 5 Health 4,549,923 1,950,664 4,353,937 6 Education 7,788,760 3,273,765 7,639,857 7a Roads and Engineering 1,642,504 392,822 1,542,439 7b Water 958,338 197,588 932,133 8 Natural Resources 294,151 76,011 307,355 9 Community Based Services 446,009 203,751 383,481 10 Planning 208,631 79,684 202,311 11 Internal Audit 98,492 37,697 106,055 Grand Total 19,507,658 7,576,674 19,327,429 Wage Rec't: 10,084,817 4,614,341 9,525,809 Non Wage Rec't: 4,227,251 2,102,279 4,965,758 Domestic Dev't 4,633,412 775,406 4,252,062 Donor Dev't 562,178 84,648 583,800 Expenditure Performance in 2014/15 The following departments had spent all the release disbursed; Planning (100%), and Finance (100%). This is because much of their budgets were recurrent . While departments like Roads and Engineering, Water , Education and Sports , Health ,Natural Resources and Environment , Community Based Services, Poduction and Marketing , Internal Audit, Statutory Bodies , and Administration had not spent all the releases .Total Revenue received was Uganda Shillings 4,649,200,000, of which Uganda Shillings 3,422,484,000 was spent and this reflected 77% of the releases spent. The unspent balance of Uganda Shillings 1,226,716,000 was majorly development that could not be spent since the contracts were awarded late Planned Expenditures for 2015/16 The slight reduction in Planning Unit Budget was drop in allocation of District Un Conditional Grant wage and District Un Conditional non wage and Multi Sectoral transfer to Lower Local Governments. The increase in , Natural Resources and Environment budget increased due to allocation of Local Government Management Development Service Delivery for Surveying Obongi Trading Centre, Community Based Service Budget increased due to Multi Sectoral Transfer to Lower Local Governments , Health budget decreased due reduction in allocation of Sanitation and Hygiene funds and Primary Health Development. Secondly LGMSD funds which were allcated to Health in FY 2014-2015 were reallocated to Education and Sports for construction and rehabilitation of staff houses . Although some of the discreationary funds were allocated to Education and Sports, its budget moved dowards due to reduction allocation of salaries to Primary, Secondary and Tertiary teachers. While the budgets of Statutory, Finance and Administration reduced due to reduction of District Un Conditional Grant non Wage Indicative Planning figure to the district . While the departments of Water and Production and Marketing Roads and Engineering had their allocation reduced as compared to FY 2014-2015 due to reduction in the Indicative Planning Figures for and Multi Sectoral Transfers to Lower Local Governments , Un Conditional Grant Non Wage, Locally Raised Revenue and NUSAF II Funds. Natural Resources and Internal Audit were the only departments that witnessed an upwards trend in their budgets. The increase of Natutal resource was due to allocation of LGMSD for purchase of suryeing equipments and while audit was due to allocation of Urban Un Conditional wage Challenges in Implementation High cost of processing salaries due travels to Kampala, poor road conditions and inadequate infrastructure limiting community access to productive land, increasing cost of production and access to markets and social services, inadequate and limited supply of electricity that hinders promotion of value addition and food processing, inadequate skilled manpower and undersaffing where the current staffing level is at 62%, negative community attitude and cultural practices that impact negatively on health seeking behaviour and access to education, high population grwoth rate ,border conflicts and substance abuse especially by youth leading to increased crime rate and Budget cuts Page 4 Local Government Workplan Vote: 539 Moyo District Page 5 Local Government Workplan Vote: 539 Moyo District A.