Role of Stakeholders Participation on National Budget Oversight in Kenya

Abstract

Stakeholder participation is a social economic concept reputably adopted by most modern democracies world over. Stakeholder participation is founded by constitutional mandates globally. it is a major framework on whose basis democratic governance is enhanced. Scholars consider stakeholder participation to be a twofold aspect of effective governance which firstly includes the quantity of stakeholder actors and secondly the extent to which stakeholders take advantage of opportunities to participate in governance processes (Rabinowitz, 2016). Stakeholder participation is viewed as a check and balance mechanism for accountability, transparency and integrity assurances. Notwithstanding, political scientists, governance scholars continue to raise questions in regard to whether global governance has democratic legitimacy. Cross sections of researchers have alluded to the fact that this question can partially be addressed though effective stakeholder participation. This paper seeks to analyze the role of stakeholder's participation on national budget oversight in Kenya.