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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