The Kenyan Treasury has trained 5,000 Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) users at both national and county level in a bid to enhance the adoption of its online public finance management system.
IFMIS was developed to automate and streamline government financial management processes and procedures, and has been rolled out to all public offices, including ministries, departments, agencies and counties.
IMFIS director Jerome Ochieng said the IFMIS Academy was created to ensure users are equipped with the skills needed to use the online platform, adding training will continue until all users are brought up to speed.
“Continuous sensitisation and training within the counties in using the system has seen users embrace the change from the manual system of operation to the automatic system that encompasses several modules that cover financial processes,” he said.
Ochieng said budget officers, the accountant-general and auditor-general have access to financial transactions and reports from the integrated system, which increases transparency.
The system will enable expenditure control and follow-up of the national and county governments’ transactions.
