Nigeria’s Experience Publishing Budget Allocations : A Practical Tool to Promote Demand for Better Governance

Nigeria’s Experience Publishing Budget Allocations : A Practical Tool to Promote Demand for Better Governance

Since January 2004, the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Finance has taken an initiative to improve transparency at all levels of government, particularly the sub-national level. Every month, it publishes the federal, state, and local government shares...

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Main Authors: Songwe, Vera, Francis, Paul, Rossiasco, Paula, O'Neill, Fionnuala, Chase, Rob
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
ACCOUNTABILITY
ALLOCATION
ANTICORRUPTION
ANTICORRUPTION STRATEGY
BUDGET ALLOCATIONS
BUDGET EXECUTION
BUDGET FORMULATION
BUDGET INFORMATION
BUDGETARY ALLOCATIONS
CAPACITY BUILDING
CIVIL SOCIETY
COLLECTED REVENUES
CORRUPT
CORRUPT PRACTICES
CORRUPTION
CORRUPTION PERCEPTION
CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX
DEBT OUTSTANDING
DEBT RELIEF
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
EFCC
EXPENDITURES
EXTERNAL DEBT
FEDERAL BUDGET
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
FEDERAL TRANSFERS
FINANCE MINISTRY
FINANCIAL COST
FINANCIAL CRIMES
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
FLOW OF INFORMATION
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
GOVERNANCE REFORM
GOVERNANCE REFORMS
GOVERNMENT FINANCES
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE
GOVERNMENT REVENUES
HUMAN RIGHTS
INITIATIVE
INTERNATIONAL BANK
LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORKS
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
LOCAL GOVERNMENT BUDGETS
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
MACROECONOMIC STABILITY
MEDIA
MINISTER
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
NATIONAL PRIORITIES
POLITICAL INTERESTS
POLITICIANS
PROSECUTION
PUBLIC
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT
PUBLIC FINANCES
PUBLIC INFORMATION
PUBLIC OFFICIALS
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
PUBLIC RESOURCES
PUBLIC REVENUES
REFORM PROCESS
REFORM PROGRAM
RENTS
RESERVES
STATE GOVERNMENT
STATE GOVERNMENTS
STRUCTURAL REFORM
SUB-NATIONAL FINANCES
SUB-NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS
TRANSPARENCY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/10/10119230/nigerias-experience-publishing-budget-allocations-practical-tool-promote-demand-better-governance
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11138
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Summary:Since January 2004, the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Finance has taken an initiative to improve transparency at all levels of government, particularly the sub-national level. Every month, it publishes the federal, state, and local government shares of revenue from the country's federal account. From its inception, then Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala led this initiative as one of many efforts to improve public expenditure management, itself part of a broader set of institutional and governance reforms. Nigeria's effort to publish budgets is a leading example of how transparent information is essential to allow citizens to participate effectively in governance, hold authorities to account, and thereby enhance development effectiveness. The intuition behind this burgeoning awareness is clear. Like for other good things, the best governance outcomes result when there is a free flow of information between those supplying government services and those demanding those services.

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