1. OPM (Clara Picanyol)
Tracking of Resources
Planning, Costing and Financing
Community of Practice
CIFF
CSN
Donor Network
REACH
Questions

2. CSO Budget Analysis
• Purpose: To understand Government financial
Resource Allocations;
– Do the resource allocations seen reflect stated
Government policy and/or strategy and/or
development plan
• Sierra Leone; Liberia (initiating); Mali (a bit); Zambia; Malawi
(planned)
• Allocations seen will form the evidence for a civil
society inspired and run advocacy campaign
– Increase/decrease/stop/start/reallocation
– Budget line descriptor – what does this mean in
reality?

3. • Assessment matrix
• Calculated:
– Local currency allocation by Department
– Local currency allocation by Budget line
– Split Headquarters vs province or subnational level
– Totals converted to US $ (using a constant exchange
rate)
– Percentage allocation
Departmental Resource Allocations Budget Lines
5000: Personal Emoluments
5011: Infrastructure Development
5024: Health Service Delivery

4. • Off Budget analysis (sector wide)
– Off budget sector analysis (Malawi)
• Budget tracking
• Tracking of Budget allocation at sub-national level
– Serious challenge, particularly with the decentralisation
process
– Purpose: Monitor the impact of Government programmes
at the community level
• Social Audit – Zambia
• Part of the normal M & E activities
• Survey undertaken by Country Bureau of Statistics?
Civil Society 263,189,087 18.77%
Government of Malawi 12,570,937 0.90%
ODA to Malawi 754,427,124 53.79%
Private Sector 2,516,997 0.18%
International Organisation 369,842,809 26.37%
Total 1,402,546,954 100.00%