Where the money slows down — the journey from budget line to finished project.
The cascade
Allocation is automatic — every constituency gets the same. Using the money is the hard part: Treasury has to release it, councils have to spend it, and projects have to finish. Each step leaks.
Allocated by the budget, released by the Treasury, utilised as reported by MLGRD — a national utilisation rate has been published for 2025 only, and where a stage is unpublished the bar says so rather than guessing.
The audit
The Auditor-General's 2024 CDF report examined 4,879 projects across all 156 constituencies. This is how they stood.
Rural share versus completion for all ten provinces — and what gets built where. The same money, very different terrain.