OPM (Clara Picanyol)

Tracking of Resources

Planning, Costing and FinancingCommunity of Practice

CIFF

CSN

Donor Network

REACH

Questions

CSO Budget Analysis

• Purpose: To understand Government financial Resource Allocations;– Do the resource allocations seen reflect stated

Government policy and/or strategy and/or development plan• Sierra Leone; Liberia (initiating); Mali (a bit); Zambia; Malawi

(planned)

• Allocations seen will form the evidence for a civil society inspired and run advocacy campaign– Increase/decrease/stop/start/reallocation– Budget line descriptor – what does this mean in reality?

• Assessment matrix

• Calculated: – Local currency allocation by Department – Local currency allocation by Budget line– Split Headquarters vs province or subnational level– Totals converted to US $ (using a constant exchange

rate)– Percentage allocation

Departmental Resource Allocations Budget Lines

5000: Personal Emoluments

5011: Infrastructure Development

5024: Health Service Delivery

• Off Budget analysis (sector wide)– Off budget sector analysis (Malawi)

• Budget tracking• Tracking of Budget allocation at sub-national level– Serious challenge, particularly with the decentralisation

process – Purpose: Monitor the impact of Government programmes

at the community level• Social Audit – Zambia• Part of the normal M & E activities• Survey undertaken by Country Bureau of Statistics?

Civil Society 263,189,087 18.77%Government of Malawi 12,570,937 0.90%ODA to Malawi 754,427,124 53.79%Private Sector 2,516,997 0.18%International Organisation 369,842,809 26.37%

Total 1,402,546,954 100.00%