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REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROMOTING ACCOUNTABILITY IN SERVICE DELIVERY AND PUBLIC FINANCE MANAGEMENT AT SUB-NATIONAL LEVEL

Posted on 01 Nov, 2019 by SDIC

08 October, 2019 by 9:00 AM
Asaba, Delta State

Annually, a significant amount of resources are being allocated for development projects through the budget which serves as a tool through which the development aspirations of the people and government intents are translated into reality. However, despite decades of resource appropriation and allocation, development aspirations of the citizens still remain largely unmet with critical public goods and social infrastructure still below standard levels. While State and local governments have struggled to provide justifications for the level of budget performance and consequently development in their domains citing reasons which range from accruals not reaching projection, citizens, on the other hand, have argued that even when the accruals are significant, the budgets still fail, due to a combination of factors including lack of citizens participation, corruption built into the processes, near-zero oversight, unrealistic projections and inefficiencies around projects planning, implementation and monitoring. To date, the level of budget performance and public service delivery has remained a subject of contention between citizens and governments at these levels with prevailing wide-spread discontent. The conference is therefore organized against this backdrop to examine the underlying issues around public service delivery and accountable governance with a view to preferring solutions and engendering support systems towards helping to close the gaps between wishes and actualities. The conference will also be used to launch the Social Action's Citizens Report, being a report of the finding of analysis and monitoring of budgets of selected Niger Delta states and two northern states for the year 2018. The report is a product of active citizens engagement in tracking budget implementation for effective service delivery.

This is an Invitation Only event.

Add to Calendar 10/08/2019 9:00 AM Africa/Lagos REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROMOTING ACCOUNTABILITY IN SERVICE DELIVERY AND PUBLIC FINANCE MANAGEMENT AT SUB-NATIONAL LEVEL Annually, a significant amount of resources are being allocated for development projects through the budget which serves as a tool through which the development aspirations of the people and government intents are translated into reality. However, despite decades of resource appropriation and allocation, development aspirations of the citizens still remain largely unmet with critical public goods and social infrastructure still below standard levels. While State and local governments have struggled to provide justifications for the level of budget performance and consequently development in their domains citing reasons which range from accruals not reaching projection, citizens, on the other hand, have argued that even when the accruals are significant, the budgets still fail, due to a combination of factors including lack of citizens participation, corruption built into the processes, near-zero oversight, unrealistic projections and inefficiencies around projects planning, implementation and monitoring. To date, the level of budget performance and public service delivery has remained a subject of contention between citizens and governments at these levels with prevailing wide-spread discontent. The conference is therefore organized against this backdrop to examine the underlying issues around public service delivery and accountable governance with a view to preferring solutions and engendering support systems towards helping to close the gaps between wishes and actualities. The conference will also be used to launch the Social Action's Citizens Report, being a report of the finding of analysis and monitoring of budgets of selected Niger Delta states and two northern states for the year 2018. The report is a product of active citizens engagement in tracking budget implementation for effective service delivery. Asaba, Delta State

...promoting effective and efficient use of public resources to reduce corruption in the education sector

REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROMOTING ACCOUNTABILITY IN SERVICE DELIVERY AND PUBLIC FINANCE MANAGEMENT AT SUB-NATIONAL LEVEL

...promoting effective and efficient use of public resources
to reduce corruption in the education sector