Kenya Roads Board manages the roads fund which is required by road agencies for the maintenance,  rehabilitation and development of the road network. KRB ensures that the allocation of funds is pegged to specific categories of roads. The disbursement criteria ensures that not less than:

(i) twenty two percent (22%), which shall be deposited into a special bank account to be called Constituency Road Fund Account to be maintained by every constituency of monies from the Fund is allocated equally to all Constituencies in the country to be administered by the Rural Roads Authority;

(ii) ten percent (10%) of the monies from the Fund is allocated for the maintenance or development of link roads between constituencies and to serve as Government counterpart funds in funding works on rural roads, to be administered by the Kenya Rural Roads Authority and that the said per centum shall be equally distributed to the constituencies where Kenya Rural Roads Authority has the mandate.

(iii) forty percent (40%) of the monies from the Fund is allocated in respect of the national roads to be administered by the National Highways Authority;

(iv) fifteen percent (15%) of the monies from the Fund is allocated in respect of the Urban Roads Authority;

(v) one percent (1%) of the monies from the Fund is allocated in respect of roads in national parks and reserves to be administered by the Kenya Wildlife  Service, and

(vi) a maximum of two percent (2%) of the monies from the Fund is allocated in respect of a recurrent expenditure of the Board.

The remainder of the monies from the Fund (10%) described in paragraph (d) shall be allocated annually by the Board with the approval of the Minister to  road investment programme derived from the five-year road investment  programme approved by the Minister responsible for roads and the Minister for  Finance.