Nairobi CECs, Chief Officers Undertake IFMIS Training
Nairobi County Executives and Chief Officers are undertaking a three day Integrated Financial Management System( IFMIS ) training on eProcurement and budgeting cycles.
Speaking during the opening of the session, Finance County Executive, Charles Kerich, said the exercise’s objective is to increase transparency, efficiency, and accountability in the sectors.
He further stated that the training will also allow the tracking and management of budgets effectively, provision of data accuracy, and reduce human error and analysis to help organisations make informed decisions.
“Governor Sakaja takes performance and revenue collection seriously. Hence, he encouraged the finance sector to ensure that all levels of staff in the county government are trained to handle procureexpenditure processes. This will ensure accountability and prudent management of finances. IFMIS is a tool that we all need to put to good use. Otherwise, we all get stuck. It has to be two way; Technical and operational, which must be used seamlessly,” he stated.
“Most counties do not use even 20 percent of IFMIS due to lack of knowledge. It’s a tool for creating budgets as opposed to using Excel Spending/procurement.”
The Finance County Executive emphasized that the role of the respecitve sectors is to facilitate all sectors.
“It is expected that at the end of this session, each County Executive and Chief Offcer will be able to generate their reports as well as monitor sector budget usage.This will eliminate unnecessary suspicion,” he said.
Speaking at the same function, Finance and Economic Planning Chief Officer Asha Abdi emphasized the role of IFMIS in national and County level of Gorverment.
She said that the system has reformed the core PFM systems of budget formulation and execution, public procurement and financial reporting in the county.
The chief Finance officer further said that the Nairobi City County Gorverment under the leadership of Governor Sakaja has endeavored to roll out end to end e-procurement process through IFMIS system, the county together with the National treasury has embarked on a training program aimed at equipping county staff at different levels on the use of the management system.
So far, the county has been able to train procurement officers,accountants, scorers ,Un -sealers, and other users.Training of Nairobi City County Executives -CEC and Chief officers marks an important milestone that the County is now fully using FMIS in its operations; the system will assist the county in its commitments and manage its payments and debts, while simultaneously ensuring quality of financial statements. BY CAPITAL NEWS


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