Nigeria’s Experience Publishing Budget Allocations : A Practical Tool to Promote Demand for Better Governance

Since January 2004, the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Finance has taken an initiative to improve transparency at all levels of government, particularly the sub-national level. Every month, it publishes the federal, state, and local government shares of revenue from the country's federal account. From its inception, then Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala led this initiative as one of many efforts to improve public expenditure management, itself part of a broader set of institutional and governance reforms. Nigeria's effort to publish budgets is a leading example of how transparent information is essential to allow citizens to participate effectively in governance, hold authorities to account, and thereby enhance development effectiveness. The intuition behind this burgeoning awareness is clear. Like for other good things, the best governance outcomes result when there is a free flow of information between those supplying government services and those demanding those services.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Songwe, Vera, Francis, Paul, Rossiasco, Paula, O'Neill, Fionnuala, Chase, Rob
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2008-10
Subjects:	ACCESS TO INFORMATION, ACCOUNTABILITY, ALLOCATION, ANTICORRUPTION, ANTICORRUPTION STRATEGY, BUDGET ALLOCATIONS, BUDGET EXECUTION, BUDGET FORMULATION, BUDGET INFORMATION, BUDGETARY ALLOCATIONS, CAPACITY BUILDING, CIVIL SOCIETY, COLLECTED REVENUES, CORRUPT, CORRUPT PRACTICES, CORRUPTION, CORRUPTION PERCEPTION, CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX, DEBT OUTSTANDING, DEBT RELIEF, ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION, ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, EFCC, EXPENDITURES, EXTERNAL DEBT, FEDERAL BUDGET, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, FEDERAL TRANSFERS, FINANCE MINISTRY, FINANCIAL COST, FINANCIAL CRIMES, FINANCIAL SUPPORT, FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY, FLOW OF INFORMATION, FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, GOVERNANCE REFORM, GOVERNANCE REFORMS, GOVERNMENT FINANCES, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE, GOVERNMENT REVENUES, HUMAN RIGHTS, INITIATIVE, INTERNATIONAL BANK, LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORKS, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT BUDGETS, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, MACROECONOMIC STABILITY, MEDIA, MINISTER, MINISTRY OF FINANCE, NATIONAL PRIORITIES, POLITICAL INTERESTS, POLITICIANS, PROSECUTION, PUBLIC, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC FINANCES, PUBLIC INFORMATION, PUBLIC OFFICIALS, PUBLIC PROCUREMENT, PUBLIC RESOURCES, PUBLIC REVENUES, REFORM PROCESS, REFORM PROGRAM, RENTS, RESERVES, STATE GOVERNMENT, STATE GOVERNMENTS, STRUCTURAL REFORM, SUB-NATIONAL FINANCES, SUB-NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS, TRANSPARENCY,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/10/10119230/nigerias-experience-publishing-budget-allocations-practical-tool-promote-demand-better-governance https://hdl.handle.net/10986/11138
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