Abstract
This thesis examined public budget formulation and decision making in three East African countries, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The purpose of the study was to determine how decision making for public sector budget formulation can be enhanced to promote participatory budgeting in these countries. These three countries were selected because their traditional incremental budgeting practices inhibit external stakeholder participation in budget formulation. These countries lack a prototype for a participatory budgeting system that involves data gathering and decision making, hence, the need to review existing policies on participatory budgeting to develop a comprehensive external stakeholder participatory budgeting model...
D.Phil. (Public Management and Governance)