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National government budget, that is the planned government expenditure for high-level activities, but not a fine-grained list of expenditure items. Open budget data allows for well-informed publics: showing where money is spent on, how public funds develop over time, and why certain activities are funded.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Downloadable | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | No | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | CSV, DBF, KML, SHP, SHX | |
| location | https://www.opendata.go.ke/datasets?q=budget - Kenya Open Data Initiative website. Filtered by budget. Found estimate/projected budget only., https://www.treasury.go.ke/component/jdownloads/category - Kenya Treasury website. Clicked on budget menu option., https://statistics.knbs.or.ke/nada/index.php/catalog#_r= - Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. Searched for budget. | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | Searched on opendata.co.ke, Kenya treasury website, Kenya Bureau of Statistics, and also via the following google query: treasury AND Kenya AND Budget AND Data | |
| characteristics | Ongoing revenues / expenditures, Disaggregation by department, program, expenditure | |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Kenya ICT Authority | |
| licence_url | https://www.opendata.go.ke/ They state the following on the home page: The Kenya Open Data Portal makes Public Government datasets accessible for free to the public in easy reusable formats,supporting the Government's drive to proactively inform citizens and be accountable. |