gabrielmahia/budget-sentinel

BudgetSentinel — Kenya public budget monitoring. Tracks county allocations vs expenditures, flags deviations. # 🛡️ Hesabu — County Budget Intelligence Kenya County development fund absorption tracker — powered by Controller of Budget data. > **Hesabu** /hesɑːbu/ — *Kiswahili*: accounts, arithmetic, reckoning. --- Kenya's 47 county governments collectively manage **KES 400+ billion** annually in devolved funds. The Controller of Budget publishes absorption rates for every county every year. Budget Sentinel turns those PDFs into a searchable, comparable dashboard that answers: **Where are development funds going unspent — and by how much?** ## What it tracks | Metric | Source | |--------|--------| | Development fund absorption rate | COB Annual County Budget Implementation Review | | Unspent development funds (KES) | Derived from COB data | | Health, education, infrastructure as % of total | COB sector breakdowns | | Per-capita allocation by county | COB × KNBS 2019 census | | County own-revenue vs national transfer dependence | COB revenue data | ## Audience - **Civil society / NGO monitors** — track county performance on key sectors - **Journalists** — identify counties with persistent low absorption for investigation - **County assembly members** — compare peers and benchmark performance - **Diaspora Kenyans** — understand where their home county's resources go - **Researchers** — download clean, cited COB data for policy analysis ## Trust principles - All figures are from **COB published reports** (public domain). Source column in every CSV. - Low absorption is a **factual observation**, not an accusation. Multiple causes exist. - This tool does not name individuals or make forensic accounting conclusions. - Verify originals at cob.go.ke. ## Local setup ```bash git clone github.com cd budget-sentinel pip install -r requirements.txt streamlit run app.py ``` ## Data `data/allocations/county_budgets_fy2223.csv` — 46 counties, FY 2022/23. All figures in KES millions. Each row has `source` and `verified` columns. Ann …