Strengthening participatory budget process (NGKD0006)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Action plan – Kaduna State, Nigeria, 2024 – 2027
Inception Report Summary: Inception Report – Action plan – Kaduna State, Nigeria, 2024 – 2025
Commitment Start: Feb 2024
Commitment End: Feb 2027
Institutions involved:
- Planning and Budget Commission
- Coalition of Associations for Leadership, Peace, Empowerment and Development (CALPED)
- Ministry of Finance
- Planning and Budget Commission
- Ministry of Local Government
- Accountant General Office
- Office of the Auditor General
- Kaduna State Fiscal Responsibility Commission
- Planning and Budget Commission
- Kaduna Local Government Accountability Mechanism
- Afaka Youth Assembly
- Kaduna Local Government Accountability Mechanism
- Young Men
- Ihifix
- Kaduna Local Government Accountability Mechanism
- Love N Compassion
- Kaduna Local Government Accountability Mechanism
- Kaduna Local Government Accountability Mechanism
- Kaduna Local Government Accountability Mechanism
- Budget Research and Development Policy Advocacy Center
- Know Your Budget (KYB)
- Yawan
- Kudan LGA Development Network
- OpenGov youth innovative Hub
- Kaduna Local Government Accountability Mechanism
- Open Kaduna OGP Radio
- Beulah future Leaders Foundation
- Initiative for Collective Voice, Accountability and Progress
- Community of Practice -civic Space Link-up
- YMCA Kaduna
- YMCA
- Hope for Communities and Children Initiative
- Legal Awareness for Nigerian Women
- Young Men Christian Association (YMCA)
Primary Policy Area:
Primary Sector:
OGP Value:
- Technology and Innovation for Transparency and Accountability
- Public Accountability
Inception Report Summary
Verifiable: Yes
Relevance to OGP Values: Yes
The commitment is a continuation of ongoing practice in line with existing legislation, policies or requirements.
The commitment activities will result in a change of the rules, practices or policies that govern a policy area, public sector and/or relationship between citizens and is binding or institutionalized across government or specific institution(s).
Description
Commitment ID
NGKD0006
Commitment Title
Strengthening participatory budget process
Problem
Despite citizen's ability to nominate needs into the annual budget in a timely manner through the automated citizens demand portal, there has been significant challenge in implementing these projects.
This is because there is an absence of a dedicated ring-fenced amount or a dedicated percentage of capital expenditure to accommodate these needs. There is a need to strengthen citizens' participation around the budget by empowering citizens to implement the budget in terms of citizen’s needs. Publication and implementation of audit recommendations are usually done but not in a timely manner.
Status quo
- Automated CDC process for needs across the 23 LGAs to inform the annual budget.
- Lump sum provision for CDC in the budget.
- The budget Call Circular has mandated MDAs to ring-fence 5% of its capital expenditure.
- Town hall and public hearing engagements available for citizens to make inputs into the Budget.
- Citizens engaged during multi-year MTEF document based on the Fiscal Responsibility Law 2016.
- Audit recommendations published but not in a timely manner.
Action
This commitment will ensure that citizens participate in the Budget process and can clearly identify CDC needs in the budget. This will improve participatory Budgeting through monitoring and reporting for advocacy for improved service delivery. It will also guarantee that budget planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting meet the expectations of citizens and that citizens have access to budget information in a timely manner and in an acceptable format.
How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?
Participatory budgeting will sustain citizens' engagement around the budget circle and ensure full utilization of the Community Development Charter through the Citizens Demand Portal as an effective participatory budgeting tool. By making budget inputs and information available, citizens can clearly identify needs that were captured in the annual budget from their local communities and they can track and provide feedback on implementation. This empowers citizens to determine the kind of development desired in their local communities and ultimately build trust between citizens and government in a transparent manner for ownership and sustainability of the process.
What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?
Nurturing citizen engagement through the participatory budget process for citizen-oriented governance for effective budget implementation.
Primary Policy Area
Digital Governance, Fiscal Openness, Inclusion
Primary Sector
Cross-sectoral, Public Services (general)
What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?
| Technology and Innovation for Transparency and Accountability | The Community Development Charter process that is automated to ensure the needs of citizens inform the budget in a timely manner. This demonstrates that technology is an enabler that leads to increased participation of citizens in the Budget process. This also takes into account the different citizen groups around the Budget process including persons with special needs. |
| Public Accountability | The budget is that document that is used to determine how services will be delivered to the people annually. Citizens being empowered to make inputs into it for better service delivery is essential to hold public officials to account in terms of spending. The publishing of quarterly budget performance demonstrates the desire of the government to remain accountable to the people who elected them to power. |