Rédaction Africa Links 24 with PIERRE TAHINGAM
Published on 2024-03-05 12:54:21
From March 4th to 6th, 2024, a capacity-building session is organized for some parliamentarians in Bangui.
These are capacity-building sessions organized for the Economic, Finance, and Planning Commission as well as those in charge of social sectors. The recipients are informed about the capacity-building on budgeting procedures, execution, and control.
This workshop led by experts Michael Castro and Mohamed Aboubakari aims to examine budget documents throughout the budget cycle and how to exercise their role in budget control to improve accountability based on social sectors.
In her speech, UNICEF representative Meritxell Relano emphasizes that “the skills you will acquire at the end of this workshop, combined with the government’s commitment to improve the living conditions of Central Africans, should be an opportunity not to be missed. It requires an increase in budgetary expenditures in social sectors and the application of good governance rules on public finances, essential steps to effectively meet the imperative of addressing the population’s fundamental needs.”
“You, as deputies, have a leading role to play in this context. Indeed, increasing domestic resource mobilization levels, respect for good governance rules on public finances, should ultimately, under your impetus, result in an increase in budget allocations to sectors, but also and especially, through your involvement in control for budget credibility and accountability to the population,” she added.
Taking the floor, interim Chief of Staff Albert Ndinabe emphasized the reform of public finances as follows: “since 2017, our country has embarked on significant reforms aimed at improving the management of public finances. Transparency is one of the key foundations of this reform. One of the major pillars of this reform remains the publication and accessibility of budget information. It is important to make budget information officially and systematically known, to allow citizens and parliamentarians to exercise control over government actions and hold the executive accountable.”
“Access to budget information gives citizens, parliamentarians, and civil society organizations the opportunity to rely on the state budget forecasts to hold the government accountable for budgetary results,” he added.
Read the original article(French) on Journal de Bangui
