This Turkana County Fiscal Strategy Paper (CFSP) 2019 is the sixth since the advent of devolutionand comes during a period of the implementation of the second generation County IntegratedDevelopment Plan (CIDP) 2018-2022.The County Treasury has is mandated to align its County Fiscal Strategy Paper with the nationalobjectives in the Budget Policy Statement and specify the broad strategic priorities and policy goalsthat will guide the Turkana County Government in preparing its budget for the Financial Year (FY)2019/20 and over the Medium Term Plan (MTP) III as per section 117 of the Public FinanceManagement (PFM) Act 2012.It is in the same spirit that the Turkana County FY 2019/20 priorities are based on the secondgeneration CIDP 2018-2022, the Annual Development Plan (ADP) 2019-2020, the Kenya Vision2030, the MTP III and the Governors Manifesto on service delivery which puts emphasis on FoodSecurity, Infrastructure and Accessibility to quality water, Health Care and Education.Herein contained in this paper are the; Economic Environment and Outlook, County DevelopmentPriorities for Medium Term, Budget Framework, Fiscal Framework and next steps of the Budgetpreparation of 2019/20.The Economic performance of the Turkana County is predominantly reliant on the Global, Regionaland National Economic environments and hence the formulation and implementation of practicalstrategies and policies is based on their trends. The County is operating on a generally stablemacroeconomic environment appropriate for attaining the stated policy priorities and better servicedelivery. However, there are emerging challenges like pending bills, the wage bill burden,insecurity, harsh climatic conditions leading to drought and floods, which the County Governmentis slowly mitigating. Thus, it is prudent to have a strong economic foundation and fiscal disciplineto aid the creation and proper utilization of the limited and scarce resources.

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