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Involve citizens in budget preparation – SEND-Ghana

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SEND-Ghana, a Non Governmental Organisation is advocating for greater

participation and involvement of citizens in the preparation of the

national budget.

They are of the belief that government must make a conscious effort to

hold more public consultations before drawing up the national budget.

Speaking at a media interaction on the "open budget tracker survey" in

Accra the Country Director for SEND-Ghana George Osei-Bimpeh stressed

the need for citizenship participation in budget formulation and

drafting.

"We are seeking to promote a citizenship participatory budget process.

We want to create an enabling environment that will allow citizens to

be informed to make meaningful contributions to the process," he

stated.

He called on government to regularly release pre budget statements

adding that "it will enable citizens make contributions into the main

budget process.

The Open Budget Survey Tracker monitors whether the central government

of 30 countries are publishing each of the eight key budget documents

on time as per international standards

The eight budget documents includes the Pre-Budget statement,

executive budget proposal, citizen's budget, In-Year reports, audit

report, Year-end report and mid-year report.

George Osei-Bimpeh however stated that Ghana had performed well in

releasing all the budget documents to the public.

He added that Ghana was yet to perform well with the release of

pre-budget statements and appealed to government to ensure the timely

releases of pre-budget statements before the reading of the main

budget.

Credit: Citifmonline.com

Kofi Oppong Kyekyeku

I am a Ghanaian Broadcast Journalist/Writer who has an interest in General News, Sports, Entertainment, Health, Lifestyle and many more.

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