Budget Transparency and Accountability.
Transparency in budgetary processes is a necessary condition for responsive decision making by the government apparatus. It brings in better insights and strategies, encourages timely and effective implementation of policies, and helps create public confidence in the willingness as well as the ability of the government to work for people.
ACT Africa’s research in this domain focuses on state sharing of resources, fiscal health and budgetary priorities of governments as well as fiscal decentralisation in the country, focusing on budgets of local governments.
In this context, ACT Africa generates evidence on the gaps in transparency and accountability mechanisms in budgets as well as seeks ways for improving the norms and practices in this domain. We also strive to enhance public understanding of National Budgets and bring more clarity in the discourses on issues relating to fiscal policy and budgetary processes.
In order to facilitate public involvement, the budgetary process in a country needs to be transparent not only at the national level, but also at the sub-national levels. In this regard, our endeavour is to inform and encourage the government authorities towards making budget information available in the public domain in a timely and accessible manner, at all levels of governance.
Fiscal Architecture, Fund Flow and Utilisation.
In the fiscal architecture in Ghana, the issues relating to institutions and processes of resource mobilisation, allocation and utilisation at different levels of governance are complex. Moreover, the changes in these institutions and processes over the years have made this domain of policy discourse even more inaccessible for a large section of people. Hence, one of ACT Africa’s key objectives is to demystify these complexities and inform our larger audience about the changes in the government finance systems and processes.
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The inability of government in expediting budgetary expenditure in development sectors and the poor quality of spending in some of the development schemes have emerged as major challenges before our policymakers over the last decade. Our research tries to identify the systemic weaknesses as well as the institutional and procedural constraints, which need to be addressed so as to enable the States to effectively utilise greater magnitudes of budget outlays in the development sectors.