BudgIT, one of the leading civic-tech civil society organizations championing transparency, accountability, and effective service delivery in Nigeria, has commended the Federal Government for taking a step toward transparency by publishing the 2024 proposed budget of Government-Owned Enterprises (GOEs) in the country. The CSO noted that the latest move by the government was partly in […]
BudgIT, one of the frontiline civic society organisations promoting transparency, accountability and effective service delivery in Nigeria, has raised some concerns over the proposed 2024 Appropriation Bill now before the National Assembly. In a statement issued by the organization on its observations in the fiscal document, it lamented that the President Bola Tinubu’s administration had […]
Tracka, BudgIT’s service delivery promotion platform, which allows citizens to collaborate, track, and give feedback on public projects in their communities, has uncovered N8.6 billion payments to 26 contractors for 19 projects across nine states that had either been abandoned or not done at all. A report by the civil advocacy organization circulated to our […]
BudgIT, a civic-tech organization at the forefront of advocacy for fiscal transparency and accountability in Nigeria, has launched the 2023 edition of its annual States of States report with the theme ‘Subnational Healthcare Delivery for Improved Economic Development’. One of the key findings of the report showed that both the national and subnational governments continued […]
BudgIT, a civic-tech organization leading the advocacy for transparency, accountability, and effective service delivery in Nigeria has called for openness and accountability in the distribution of the N5 billion relief fund being disbursed by the Federal Government to state governments in order to achieve the goal of the intervention. It noted that the recent economic […]
BudgIT has launched its States Fiscal Transparency League (SFTL), an initiative which builds on the recently concluded World Bank’s State Fiscal Transparency, Accountability, and Sustainability (SFTAS) Programme, designed to promote fiscal transparency and facilitated accountability in public resource management. It would be recalled that the World Bank developed SFTAS (States Fiscal Transparency, Accountability, and Sustainability), […]
BudgIT, a leading civic-tech organization advocating for transparency and accountability in Nigeria’s public finance, has asked the Budget Office of the Federation and the Office of the Minister for Finance to immediately make public how the third quarter 2022 budget was implemented in line with public finance extant legislation. The civil advocacy organization in a […]
…says allocation higher than schools and PHCs’ combined budget Tracka, BudgIT’s service delivery promotion platform, has disclosed that a total of N81.7 billion was allocated to the construction of solar street lights in the 2023 FG Capital and Constituency projects. The civil advocacy group reported that the budgetary allocation was higher than the total […]
BudgIT, a leading public data organization raising active citizens’ participation in nation-building and government-citizen communication for good governance and accountability, has urged the National Population Commission (NPC) to publish the breakdown of the N896 billion 2023 National Population Census budget. The civil advocacy group, in a statement issued by its Communication Associate, Nancy Odimegwu, on […]
BudgIT, a leading public data organisation focused on raising active citizens and civic leaders to improve governance by bridging the information gap between the government and citizens, has announced the launching of its interactive FG Budget Dashboard for improved engagement of the government by the people in budgetary processes. The dashboard is a web-based platform […]