Vote: 550 Rukungiri District Structure of Workplan
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Local Government Workplan Vote: 550 Rukungiri 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 2013/14 D: Details of Annual Workplan Activities and Expenditures for 2013/14 Page 1 Local Government Workplan Vote: 550 Rukungiri District Foreword In accordance with section 77 of the Local Governments Act Cap 243, Local Governments are obliged to formulate, approve and execute their budgets and plans, provided the budgets shall be balanced. In accordance with the Local Governments Act Part viii section 82 (4) as amended, The Chairman of Local Government is mandated to lay before the council estimates of revenue and expenditure of the council for the next ensuing Financial Year not later than 30th day of June . To implement this, the District started preparation of the budget for 2013/14 late last year. The development of the budget followed the normal process right from the budget conference, Budget Desk meetings to look at sources of revenues and fixing sector ceilings. In the process of budgeting the District has adopted the format that was introduced by Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development which clearly shows target outputs, planned activities and inputs required for each sector plans. The issues highlighted in the Budget Framework Paper have been incorporated as a starting point for our Budget and Annual Work plan. Therefore the budget was prepared after wide consultation to accommodate various views of stakeholders. This budget is in line with the Performance Contract Form B to be signed with Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. The Performance Contract Form B is an important document which enables Government to get a clear linkage between the financial expenditures and outputs attained clearly indicating the geographical locations of the outputs. The District expects a total of shs.23,918,485,000. About shs. 19,104,930,000 is Conditional Central Government Transfers, 1,821,220,000 is Discretionary Government transfers and shs.374,411,000 is Local Development Grant. Other central government transfers is shs.1,415,724,000 which include-MoLG 212,942,000,MoES -shs. 12,148,000, Unspent balance shs.63,219,000,other transfers in unspent shs.40,794,000, PCY shs.30,000,000 UWA revenue sharing shs.45,000,000, MoGLSD women grant shs. 3,000,000, Unspent conditional grant shs.78,333,000 and MoH shs..450,000,000. The District is expected to generate shs. 470,367,000 in local raised revenue The donor funding has more than doubled ( from 366,285,000 to 731,832,000) because USAID has all USAID funded organisations to integrate their workplans as a component of the District Workplan /Budget. Of shs. 731,832,000 , shs 709,847,850 is from SDS and shs.21,984,600 is from SCORE. In addition to direct cash grants from donors, the donors will support the district budget with shs.895,721,471 in off budget support to improve service delivery in Planning, Administration, Health and Community Based Services. The development partners off budget support contributions are as follows; ACCORD/SUNRISE shs.14,342,859 , STAR SW shs.563,988,268, SDS shs.317,390,343 . The component of Central Government Transfer is 95% of the Total District Revenue envelope, Donor’s Contribution is expected to be 3% while the locally raised revenue is still low at only 2% of the total revenue envelope. The introduction of the new taxes, Local Service Tax and Local Hotel Tax which was to address the problem of low local raised revenue has not yielded much since most of sub-counties are rural and do not have hotels and most salary earners stay in Municipality. I call upon the Ministry of Local Government to hasten the release of worked out commercial farmers so that we can benefit from this. This means that the District is relying on the Central Government transfers which constrain the operations of Local Governments as conditions set must be followed. The District plans to spend Shs. 23,918,485,000 compared to shs.21,468,174,000 in 2012/13 representing increase of 10.2 percentage. The projected Donor support was from SDS has been phased into installments to be realized in 2013/14 and 2014/15 contrary to earlier expectation of 100% in 2013/14. The district will receive the money for mass immunisation and has received the money for bicycles for LC 1 amounting shs. 212,942,000 in the fourth Quarter of Financial Year 2012/13. The wage component stands at shs.14,718,263,000 which is 62% of the current projected resource. Non wage recurrent, shs. 5,945,296,000 , shs. 2,6523,093,000 is Domestic development and shs.731,832,000 will be donor development. THE HIGHLIGHT ACHIEVEMENTS OF 2012/2013 FINANCIAL YEAR. MANAGEMENT Page 2 Local Government Workplan Vote: 550 Rukungiri District 1. The department successfully organized all national celebration 2. Reviewed the process of enumeration and assessment of trading licenses whose results portray an increase in viability of the source by 499%. Previously we were expected to raise 24,670,000= only from trading licenses as compared to an assessed amount of more than 80,022,000=. We even expect to increase on collection of other revenues from service tax and ground rent that were not assessed and collected previously. 3. Regular senior management Committee meetings have been introduced on every first three Mondays’ of the month at 8.00am as routine activities to ease coordination of service delivery in the district. 4. One vehicle UAA 284X has been repaired and put under the control of the Deputy Chief administrative officer to ease implementation of government programmes. Vehicle No. LG- 0099-42 has been taken to Kampala for comprehensive repair to increase support supervision of government programs and local revenue activities. 5. Contactor for fencing of district headquarters has completed first phase of fencing. 6 Have continued paying the loan for CAO’s vehicle and so far all the money has been paid. HUMAN RESOURCES 1. The DSC has held eleven sittings under which 119 staffs have been recruited 50 under health sector, 57 under education, two under natural resources, and others under community based services and management. 38 staff have been confirmed, 5 promoted, 16 abandoned duty, 2 retired on medical grounds, 1 dismissed, 7 granted study leave, 1 interdiction lifted, 2 granted acting appointments and 5 appointed on transfer of service. 2. Induction of 167newly recruited staff. 3. Regular submission of monthly Pay change reports to Ministry of Public Service to ensure that staff access payroll and there is proper payroll management. FINANCE 1. Quarter Reports for 2012/13 have continuously been submitted to Ministry of Finance and other sector Ministries in time . The Budget Framework paper for 2013/14 was also submitted to Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Ministry of Local Governement and Local Government Finance Commission. 2. Quarter releases have been received and disbursed to the concerned departments. 3. Carried out revenue mobilization in all sub counties in regard to collection of trading licenses. 4. Paid all outstanding council sitting allowances. 5. Paid Ex Gratia allowances up to June 2013. 6. Final accounts for 2011/12 were made and submitted to Auditor General’s office. PROCUREMENT AND DISPOSAL UNIT All contract requisitions have been handled and agreements signed. Bids for CAIIP-3 road project have been evaluated and awarded and report submitted to Ministry of Local Government. 1. Procurement work plan for 2013/2014 was reviewed. 2. Reviewed Bugangari Health Centre IV ward construction variations. 3. Review of prequalification advertisement for 2013/2014 financial year was concluded sucessfully. PLANNING UNIT. 1. Held regular Technical Planning Committee meetings (TPC). 2. Monitored and supervised of LGMSD projects. 3. Grant C concept has been appraised to proposal level which gives the district a chance to compete for up to shillings 600 millions. COUNCIL STANDING COMMITTEES All Council Standing Committees and Council meetings were conducted . All outstanding council allowances were paid up to the last concluded meetings. COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES DEPARTMENT Community Driven Development (CDD) This year, so far, we have funded community groups in Nyakishenyi, Nyakagyeme, Kebisoni, Buhunga, Ruhinda, and Bwambara subcounties to the tune of shs.54,000,000=. It is planned that the remaining five groups in Bugangari subcounty will be catered for in the last Quarter of this Financial Year. That will bring the CDD Programme to a close. Child care and Protection Page 3 Local Government Workplan Vote: 550 Rukungiri District The 5 year OVC Strategic Plan is in the final draft. 331 children have received social welfare services at the District and subcounty.46 children in contact with the law have been represented in court by the probation office, and 12 children were resettled in their homes or with foster parents. Parish and Sub county OVC Action plans have been made PWDs The following PWDs groups have received grants under the Special grants for PWDs:Nyeibingo Kwebisaho PWDs group, Rushaya 1Barema Tweyambe, Nyabubare Barema Twimukye,Nyakabungo PWDs Tukore,Bugangari Barema Kwetrana Youth 50 Youths were trained in Entrepreneurship skills. This training should help the young people to be able to do business profitably. We have also, through the project for Children and Youth (PCY) sent 3 Youths for vocational skills training at Rutooma Vocational skills training centre. Civil Society/NGOs NGOs and CBOs are playing a commendable role in the development of the District. Notable among those that are active in the social development sector are Child development centres (Compassion assisted), AGAPE at Nyakibale, LADA, BRIDGE OF HOPE CHILD MINISTRIES, SCORE Project (under RUDFA), Fowode, Nyaka AIDS FOUNDTION and Ruhinda Women Integrated Development Foundation all of which are contributing to improving the plight of Vulnerable children in particular and the community generally.