KP govt initiates series of trainings on budget.

Peshawar -- The development of budget at district level and empowering the district administrations to carry out need assessment before the preparation of budget is a significant milestone that the provincial government wants to achieve before the new local government is in place.

In view of this development, the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa initiated a series of trainings on budget and meetings on expenditure reviews in district Lower Dir on 14 January 2021 with technical assistance of Sub-National Governance (SNG) programme. All devolved heads of departments were invited along with their budget and accounts officials.

The session was held in the assembly hall and chaired by ADC F and P. The session covered several topics on expenditure review, need assessment and budget preparation; one after the other to capitalise on the opportunity of having all head of departments and the relevant staff along with other important stakeholders, on the same forum.

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The first part of the session was based on expenditure review and orientation of line departments on expenditure review template. Historically, it has been observed that large amount of district expenditure is being conducted during the last quarter of each financial year. One of the frequent arguments put forward by the line departments is the lack of timely releases and access to the expenditure data.

On the other hand, this is counter argued by the finance department, as lack of line department's financial management capacity, resulting in inefficient execution of budget. This adversely impacts the release schedule and procedure at the devolved level and hampers the service delivery at the grass-root level.

In order to respond to the above identified problem, SNG-HI Programme North Cluster, provided technical assistance for the development of an expenditure review dashboard to facilitate F and P wing to conduct a district wide expenditure review. The dashboard has been kept user friendly to facilitate Finance and Planning and DDOs to...

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