Dagoretti North
The constituency, in numbers
What the constituency actually has — roads, schools, clinics, colleges, markets, police stations — and where the money goes. Figures are cited to their source; blanks mean we haven't verified them yet.
How the CDF money is actually spent
Built from four years of Auditor-General reports and the NG-CDF Board's own project proposal. Every figure traces to a page in a public document — sources at the bottom of this page.
| Financial year | Personnel | Committee/admin | Development | Total payments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020/21 | 3,154,800 | 10,680,729 | 115,313,716 | 129,149,245 |
| 2021/22 | 4,380,710 | 11,336,721 | 153,881,123 | 169,598,554 |
| 2022/23 | 3,528,230 | 13,222,066 | 91,731,118 | 108,481,414 |
| 2023/24 | Not audited locally — excluded from totals | |||
| 2024/25 (accrual basis) | 5,610,670 | 7,520,496 | 224,782,149 | 237,913,315 |
| 4-year total | 16,674,410 | 42,760,012 | 585,708,106 | 645,142,528 |
Personnel = Compensation of Employees. Committee/admin = Committee Expenses + Use of Goods & Services + Other Payments + Depreciation. Development = Transfers to Other Government Units + Other Grants and Transfers + Acquisition of Assets, applied consistently across all four years.
Proposed, budgeted, and spent are three different numbers
FY2021/22 is the one year where the constituency's own proposal, its parliamentary-approved budget, and its audited actual spend can all be lined up.
The Original Budget (Ksh 137,088,879) matches the FY2021/22 project proposal to the shilling. Parliament's Final Budget then grew by Ksh 93.7M purely from money the constituency was already holding: Ksh 42.0M in opening cash-book balance and Appropriations-in-Aid, plus Ksh 51.7M in disbursements approved in earlier years but not yet paid. Of the Ksh 230.8M available, only Ksh 169.6M was spent; Ksh 61.2M rolled forward again.
CDF in the next 5 years
2027/28–2031/32 — six programme areas, sized to reach all five wards — Kileleshwa, Kilimani, Kawangware, Gatina, Kabiro — rather than one at a time, funding asset classes CDF hasn't funded here before.
“CDF will no longer be the MP's pocket money.”
Download the one-page CDF pitch (PDF)Boda boda, taxi & car-wash centers
Sheltered stages with sanitation, water and a kiosk for boda boda and Uber/taxi operators — 2 per ward, 10 total; separate car-wash sites with proper drainage — 3 per ward, 15 total. 25 sites overall.
Community halls, one per ward
Multi-purpose halls with a stage, seating for 250–300, and a fitted creative-arts space, plus a small grant programme for resident theatre, music and dance groups.
Pools, grounds & cross-ward leagues
One new training pool in each of the four wards without one; Kilimani ward already has pools at Kilimani and Lavington primary schools, so it gets the funded access programme instead; upgraded football pitches, tennis and volleyball courts; an annual cross-ward league in swimming, cycling, tennis, football and volleyball, sponsored jointly with corporate and sports-federation partners the way community leagues usually are, not carried by CDF alone.
Community libraries, one per ward
Reading room, digital-access computers, solar backup, a stocked collection, a funded librarian, and an annual book-replenishment budget.
Recreational parks & a 500,000-tree food forest
Five new or reconstituted public spaces, one per ward, doubling as planting sites; five ward propagation nurseries; 500,000 fruit trees — guava, avocado, loquat and other indigenous species — with two years of paid aftercare built in.
Participation, oversight & upkeep
Baraza validation of every project before funds are committed, one proportionate monitoring & evaluation line, site works/way-leaves, and a maintenance sinking fund.
Card figures are direct project costs. Design/supervision fees and contingency (Ksh 78.1M, applied across capital works) are not folded into these five — they're counted separately in the Ksh 874.1M core-plan total below.
How this is run differs from current practice
- Baraza before budget. Every ward's project list is validated at a published, minuted community baraza — attendance registers included — before it is submitted, not assembled afterward.
- Personnel stays lean by design. Delivery leans on seconded national and county government staff and structured community volunteers — ward project committees, library stewards, "tree champions" — instead of new hires. Compensation of Employees does not grow with the programme.
- Not the MP's pocket money. The baraza-validated project list, the budget, and spend-to-date are published before implementation each year. No discretionary reallocation outside that published list.
What it costs, and an honest gap
The core plan (mobility, halls, pools, libraries, programme integrity, plus fees and contingency) comes to Ksh 874.1M against a Ksh 192M/year × 5 target (Ksh 960M). Five recreational spaces and the 500,000-tree programme, costed properly, add a further Ksh 260M — a combined Ksh 1,134.1M, or roughly Ksh 226.8M/year against a 4-year audited average NG-CDF transfer of Ksh 155M/year.
All unit costs are planning-level estimates pending a professional bill of quantities.
What Dagoretti North has
Classified roads
- KeNHA (national trunk roads)
- not yet recorded
- KURA (urban roads)
- not yet recorded
- KeRRA (rural roads)
- not yet recorded
Kilometres of gazetted road by the agency responsible.
Schools
- Primary — public
- not yet recorded
- Primary — private / APBET
- not yet recorded
- Secondary — public
- not yet recorded
- Secondary — private
- not yet recorded
Source: Ministry of Education / Nairobi County education office.
Colleges & universities
- Universities
- not yet recorded
- TVET institutions
- not yet recorded
- Other colleges
- not yet recorded
Source: Commission for University Education; TVET Authority.
Health facilities
- Public
- not yet recorded
- Private / faith-based
- not yet recorded
Source: Kenya Master Health Facility List (KMHFL).
Other public infrastructure
- Markets
- not yet recorded
- Police stations / posts
- not yet recorded
NG-CDF allocations
| Year | Allocation | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/21 | KSh 154,767,724 | Audit report |
| 2021/22 | KSh 188,777,758 | Audit report |
| 2022/23 | KSh 97,000,000 | Audit report |
| 2024/25 | KSh 179,483,419 | Audit report |
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