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Revenue EnhancementBorama2023–2024 Delivered

Borama Revenue Enhancement — SUIDAC City Alliance

End-to-end revenue enhancement program modernizing tax assessment, billing, and collection systems to strengthen Borama Municipality's own-source revenue under the SUIDAC City Alliance.

Borama Revenue Enhancement — SUIDAC City Alliance
Client
Borama Municipality
Region
Borama
Period
2023–2024
Partners
SUIDAC City Alliance · Municipal Finance & Revenue Department
Scope

Diagnostic, redesign, and implementation support for Borama's full revenue value chain — covering legal basis, assessment, billing, collection, enforcement, and citizen-facing transparency — within the SUIDAC City Alliance framework.

The Challenge

Borama Municipality, like most secondary cities in the Horn of Africa, was financing service delivery from a narrow, leak-prone revenue base. Assessment was incomplete, billing relied on disconnected ledgers, collection enforcement was inconsistent, and citizens had no visible link between what they paid and what they received.

Our Approach

How the engagement was structured.

  1. Stage 01Revenue Diagnostic

    Full mapping of every revenue stream — legal basis, assessment process, billing channel, collection point, leakage risk — producing a quantified diagnostic of the revenue value chain.

  2. Stage 02Process Redesign

    Standard operating procedures rewritten end-to-end, with control points, segregation of duties, and reconciliation cycles built into the workflow.

  3. Stage 03Billing & Collection Modernization

    Modernized billing tied to the property registry, structured collection channels, and reconciliation discipline between the cash office and the general ledger.

  4. Stage 04Enforcement & Citizen Transparency

    Graduated enforcement protocols paired with citizen-facing transparency — receipts, posted rates, and complaint channels that reduce political risk and build the legitimacy reforms need.

  5. Stage 05Capacity & Coaching

    Embedded coaching of revenue staff through several billing and collection cycles — moving the system from project-supported to municipally owned.

Components

Work streams delivered

  • Revenue value-chain diagnostic
  • SOPs for assessment, billing, collection
  • Reconciliation & control framework
  • Billing-system modernization
  • Enforcement protocols
  • Citizen-transparency tools
  • Staff coaching & training
Deliverables

Outputs handed over

  • Revenue diagnostic report
  • Redesigned SOPs & control framework
  • Modernized billing process
  • Enforcement & transparency protocols
  • Trained municipal revenue cohort
  • Sustainability handover plan
Impact

What the engagement produced.

01 / 03End-to-endRevenue value chain redesigned
02 / 03Own-sourceRevenue base strengthened structurally
03 / 03InstitutionalizedReforms embedded in municipal practice
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