THE
East African Community Secretariat has saved 3.4 m/ US dollar by cutting down
travel expenses in 10 month period. The EAC secretariat said in a statement on
Wednesday that it had significantly reduced traveling expenses in the period
running from May 2016 to February 2017 compared to a similar period from May
2015 to February 2016.
EAC Secretary General,
Liberat Mfumukeko disclosed that travel expenditures fell to 9.1m/ US dollar in
the period ending February 2017 compared to 12.5m/ US dollar in the previous financial
year, which is a drop of 3.4m/ US dollar.
EAC travel expenditure
includes air tickets for EAC Staff, air tickets for Partner States’ delegates and other
participants at EAC meetings, and daily subsistence allowance (DSA) for EAC
staff, partner states delegates and other participants in EAC meetings.
Mr Mfumukeko said some
of the most significant cost reductions were in expenditure on air tickets
which dropped by 456,491/ US dollar and air tickets for partner states’ delegates and other
participants to EAC meetings which declined by 408,273/ US dollar.
The Secretary General
said that DSA for EAC staff also plunged from 4.5m/ US dollar to 3.2m/ US
dollar over the same period, which is a difference of 1.36m/ US dollar.
Moreover, expenditure on
DSA for delegates to EAC meetings went down from 4.4m/ US dollar to 3.5m/US
dollar, which is a drop of 1.05m/ US dollar. Mr Mfumukeko added that the EAC
overall travel budget has declined significantly over the past three financial
years.
He said the Community’s travel budget was
28.1m/ US dollar in the 2014/2015 fiscal year, then 28m/ US dollar in the
2015/2016 and 21m/ US dollar 2016/2017 financial year.
He said the secretariat
has since April 2016 been undergoing administrative and institutional reforms
aimed at cutting down on costs and reducing wastage in its expenditure.
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