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Vote:583 Buyende District Quarter4 Local Government Quarterly Performance Report FY 2020/21 Vote:583 Buyende District Quarter4 Terms and Conditions I hereby submit Quarter 4 performance progress report. This is in accordance with Paragraph 8 of the letter appointing me as an Accounting Officer for Vote:583 Buyende District for FY 2020/21. I confirm that the information provided in this report represents the actual performance achieved by the Local Government for the period under review. Mr Ogwang Godfrey Okello Date: 20/08/2021 cc. The LCV Chairperson (District) / The Mayor (Municipality) 1 Local Government Quarterly Performance Report FY 2020/21 Vote:583 Buyende District Quarter4 Summary: Overview of Revenues and Expenditures Overall Revenue Performance Ushs Thousands Approved Budget Cumulative Receipts % of Budget Received Locally Raised Revenues 384,306 331,656 86% Discretionary Government 3,078,318 3,188,661 104% Transfers Conditional Government Transfers 19,621,746 19,595,317 100% Other Government Transfers 1,640,753 1,331,804 81% External Financing 1,350,000 48,005 4% Total Revenues shares 26,075,123 24,495,443 94% Overall Expenditure Performance by Workplan Ushs Thousands Approved Cumulative Cumulative % Budget % Budget % Releases Budget Releases Expenditure Released Spent Spent Administration 3,818,261 4,132,747 2,455,001 108% 64% 59% Finance 315,941 294,017 290,890 93% 92% 99% Statutory Bodies 724,278 621,477 621,336 86% 86% 100% Production and Marketing 963,473 1,024,356 995,972 106% 103% 97% Health 3,763,784 3,074,321 2,923,508 82% 78% 95% Education 12,473,396 12,003,482 11,350,154 96% 91% 95% Roads and Engineering 913,914 987,926 987,056 108% 108% 100% Water 1,269,192 1,087,859 1,087,701 86% 86% 100% Natural Resources 205,757 202,515 194,354 98% 94% 96% Community Based Services 1,129,063 620,337 605,308 55% 54% 98% Planning 378,430 374,359 373,052 99% 99% 100% Internal Audit 67,262 41,176 40,647 61% 60% 99% Trade Industry and Local 52,371 30,871 28,507 59% 54% 92% Development Grand Total 26,075,123 24,495,443 21,953,486 94% 84% 90% Wage 12,827,494 12,957,421 12,188,225 101% 95% 94% Non-Wage Reccurent 8,134,108 8,056,885 6,483,581 99% 80% 80% Domestic Devt 3,763,521 3,433,131 3,269,848 91% 87% 95% Donor Devt 1,350,000 48,005 11,831 4% 1% 25% 2 Local Government Quarterly Performance Report FY 2020/21 Vote:583 Buyende District Quarter4 Summary of Cumulative Receipts, disbursements and expenditure for FY 2020/21 The District cumulatively received from all revenue sources UGX 24,495,443,000 at 94% level of performance as of 30th June 2021. The performance arose from Discretionary Government Transfers and Condition Government Transfers. However, under performance of 19% was registered in Other Government Transfers (81%) against the target 100% at the end of Quarter four, Local Revenue also under performed by 13.7% Development Performed at the level of 95% instead of 100% as expected at the end of quarter four this was attributed to underperformance on donor funding.. All the Funds were released on Single Treasury Account (STA) and latterly on transferred to User-Accounts for both HLG and LLGs. The cumulative wage expenditure performance was UGX 12,188,225,000 (101%), out of the cumulative Releases of UGX 12,988,127,000 /= of the approved wage budget and it was above the approved simply because there was supplementary on production and Education departments. The none-wage expenditure performance was Ugx 6,483,581,000 (96%) of the allocation of Ugx 8,056,885,000/- of the entire budget and Development Equally spent 3,269,848,000/- all these funds were transferred to the User-Account including pension, Gratuity, pension arrears, salary arrears and other recurrent funds to carry out activities in various departments Looking at departmental performance, Administration cumulatively received 108% and spend 64% by end of quarter four, Finance realized 93% of its budget and by the end of quarter 92% was spent , statutory bodies got 86% and spent 86% , Production get 106% and 103% was spent, Health 82% and 78% was spent , Education 96% out of which 91% was spent, Engineering and roads received 108% but spent 108% , Water realized 86% and 86% was spent by quarter four Natural resources 98 received and 94% spent , Community 55% received and 54% was spent , Planning 99% out which 99% was spent, Audit 61% was received and 60% was spent and Commerce and trade received 59% and 54 was spent. Departments like production and Administration realized more than 100% expected by end fourth quarter; this was because all development and supplementary funds were released by end of quarter four. The 45% underperformance on community based services was as a result of less release of UWEP funds. The cumulative quarterly performance was only 94% due to the fact that procurable items like stationary and road Construction at Sub-county level were delayed due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and limited road equipment. Cumulative Revenue Performance by Source % of Budget Ushs Thousands Approved Budget Cumulative Receipts Received 1.Locally Raised Revenues 384,306 331,656 86 % Local Services Tax 75,000 78,283 104 % Land Fees 5,000 4,160 83 % Other Goods - Local 12,000 8,345 70 % Other taxes on specific services 23,406 1,000 4 % Local Hotel Tax 700 0 0 % Application Fees 18,000 30,174 168 % Business licenses 102,000 59,130 58 % Other licenses 7,000 6,966 100 % Miscellaneous and unidentified taxes 26,000 17,251 66 % Sale of drugs 3,000 0 0 % Park Fees 2,000 550 28 % Property related Duties/Fees 2,500 1,600 64 % Advertisements/Bill Boards 2,000 0 0 % Animal & Crop Husbandry related Levies 22,000 11,677 53 % Registration (e.g. Births, Deaths, Marriages, etc.) fees 9,000 321 4 % Educational/Instruction related levies 8,000 0 0 % Inspection Fees 6,000 500 8 % Market /Gate Charges 35,000 83,342 238 % 3 Local Government Quarterly Performance Report FY 2020/21 Vote:583 Buyende District Quarter4 Other Fees and Charges 5,000 21,595 432 % Ground rent 3,500 1,161 33 % Group registration 12,000 5,600 47 % Sale of Land 2,500 0 0 % Lock-up Fees 2,700 0 0 % Advance Recoveries 0 0 0 % 2a.Discretionary Government Transfers 3,078,318 3,188,661 104 % District Unconditional Grant (Non-Wage) 823,755 823,755 100 % Urban Unconditional Grant (Non-Wage) 78,151 78,091 100 % District Discretionary Development Equalization Grant 686,620 686,620 100 % Urban Unconditional Grant (Wage) 121,534 104,961 86 % District Unconditional Grant (Wage) 1,313,507 1,440,484 110 % Urban Discretionary Development Equalization Grant 54,751 54,751 100 % 2b.Conditional Government Transfers 19,621,746 19,595,317 100 % Sector Conditional Grant (Wage) 11,392,452 11,411,976 100 % Sector Conditional Grant (Non-Wage) 3,316,226 3,270,273 99 % Sector Development Grant 2,263,908 2,263,908 100 % Transitional Development Grant 19,802 19,802 100 % Salary arrears (Budgeting) 0 0 0 % Pension for Local Governments 317,189 317,189 100 % Gratuity for Local Governments 2,312,169 2,312,169 100 % 2c. Other Government Transfers 1,640,753 1,331,804 81 % Support to PLE (UNEB) 16,000 23,370 146 % Uganda Road Fund (URF) 756,253 830,241 110 % Uganda Women Enterpreneurship Program(UWEP) 216,000 21,706 10 % Support to Production Extension Services 0 11,289 0 % Micro Projects under Luwero Rwenzori Development 472,500 342,580 73 % Programme Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) 80,000 14,566 18 % Results Based Financing (RBF) 100,000 88,052 88 % 3. External Financing 1,350,000 48,005 4 % United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) 50,000 0 0 % World Health Organisation (WHO) 50,000 0 0 % Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) 100,000 35,417 35 % United States Agency for International Development 150,000 0 0 % (USAID) VNG International 1,000,000 12,588 1 % Total Revenues shares 26,075,123 24,495,443 94 % Cumulative Performance for Locally Raised Revenues 4 Local Government Quarterly Performance Report FY 2020/21 Vote:583 Buyende District Quarter4 Cumulatively, the locally generated revenue performed at approximately UGX. 331,655,565 which represents 86% of the overall planned budget. The over performance of 13.7% is attributed to the fact that ... Cumulative Performance for Central Government Transfers By the end of the fourth quarter, Buyende District had received a total of 22,783,977,928 Uganda shillings which accounts for 102% of the overall budget under conditional government transfers. This was mainly arisen from release of sector conditional non- wage and development funds all sectors Cumulative Performance for Other Government Transfers By the end of the fourth quarter, Buyende District had received a total of 1,331,804,000 Uganda shillings which accounts for 81% of the overall budget. The underperformance of 19% was attributed to mainly less release of Uganda Road Fund (URF), Results Based Financing (RBF) , the NTD, PCA and UWEP respectively Cumulative Performance for External Financing By the end of the fourth quarter, Buyende District had received a total of 48,005,000 Uganda shillings which accounts for 4% of the overall budget under conditional External Financing. This under performance of 96% mainly arose from release of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI 5 Local Government Quarterly Performance Report FY 2020/21 Vote:583 Buyende District Quarter4 Expenditure Performance by Sector and SubProgramme Uganda Shillings Thousands &XPXODWLYH([SHQGLWXUH 4XDUWHUO\([SHQGLWXUH 3HUIRUPDQFH 3HUIRUPDQFH Approved Cumulative % Budget Plan for Quarter %Quarter Budget Expenditure Spent the outturn Plan quarter Sector: Agriculture Agricultural Extension
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