EXECUTIVE SUMMARY :
The President's Office, Public Service Management in collaborations with other actors in implementation of the reform and transformation are gearing to a culture of excellence. The Regional Secretariat inline with this culture of excellence has developed its Medium Term Expenditure Frame-work for the financial year 2008/09 – 2010/11 as part of implementation of the new directive given towards quality services to its clients/stakeholders.
This culture of excellence aimed at attaining the level of socio-economic development in which individuals and communities will be able to attain an acceptable minimum level of standard of living above absolute poverty in which the majority of people are currently subjected to.
Based on this framework, the Regional Secretariat believes that, the community will constantly access essential social, economic and administrative services whereby the creation of conducive atmosphere for increased productivity in agriculture, animal husbandry, mining and tourism will be improved, strengthened and promoted.
In order to achieve this, during the financial year 2008/09, Rukwa Region inline with Government ceiling is requesting an approval for the budget amounting to Tsh. 47,871,862,030/= a s it is shown in the tables 1 to 6 bellow:-
Table 1: Summary of 2008/2009 Budget:

Table 2 Summary of Estimates of Financial year 2008/2009 by cluster
S/N |
Sub Vote No . |
Sub Vote / Descriptions |
Estimates |
TOTAL |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
PE |
OC |
DEV |
|
1 |
1001 |
Administrative and General |
522,267,000 |
1,025,047,000 |
525,113,000 |
2,072,427,000 |
2 |
2001(a) |
Planning & Coordination Support |
47,426,750 |
109,256,000 |
0 |
156,682,750 |
3 |
2001 (b) |
Local Gov't Management Support |
33,876,250 |
90,777,000 |
0 |
124,653,250 0 |
|
|
Sub Total 2001 |
81,303,000 |
200,033,000 |
0 |
281,336,000 |
4 |
2002 |
Economic Development Support |
82,588,000 |
100,001,000 |
0 |
182,589,000 |
5 |
2003 |
Physical Engineering Support |
50,726,000 |
99,365,000 |
0 |
150,091,000 |
6 |
2004 |
Social Services |
49,826,000 |
147,944,000 |
0 |
197,770,000 |
7 |
3001 |
Curative |
909,737,000 |
327,460,000 |
600,000,000 |
1,837,197,000 |
8 |
3002 |
Preventive |
26,989,000 |
25,150,000 |
0 |
52,139,000 |
10 |
|
TOTAL |
1,723,436,000 |
1,925,000,000 |
1,125,113,000 |
4,773,549,000 |
Table 3: District Commissioners' Estimates for FY 2008/09
Sumbawanga |
Mpanda |
Nkasi |
TOTAL |
140,000,000 |
140,000,000 |
130,000,000 |
410,000,000 |
Table 5: Budget Proposal for PE and OC to Local Government Authorities 2008/2009 Rukwa Region


MTEF Memorandum has six chapters, Chapter one includes executive summary, the statement of The Regional Commissioner and The Regional Administrative Secretary. This chapter highlights briefly the nature and extent of this direction towards culture of excellence inline with vision 2025.
Chapter two spells out institutional scan particularly stakeholder analysis, SWOT analysis and key issues to be dealt with for possible quality solutions. Chapter three is addressing reviewed institutional perspectives. Chapter four reviews performance budgets for the year 2006/07 and 2007/08 up to 31 st March, 2007, planned targets plus actual achievements and limitations encountered.
Chapter five is presenting the proposed Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) for 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2010/11, financial years. It includes; Objectives, Targets, Activities, Costing of inputs and projections, GFS sub-items, Development budget and Revenue estimates. It ends with a summary of the total budget requested for 2008/09 financial year which include; Personal Emoluments, Other charges, Other Recurrent Grant and Development projects for Regional Secretariat (RS) and Local Government Authorities (LGAs) in the region.
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