This document discusses budget tracking and provides definitions of key budgeting terms like appropriations, budget, and fiscal year. It outlines the budget cycle of formulation, enactment, execution, and auditing. It advises the reader to decide what money to follow, find the relevant budget data sources, and look for differences between approved and released funding. The document also offers tips for tracking policymakers, including working across party lines, sharing credit, and tailoring communications appropriately.

1. Oludotun Babayemi
What can happen
When you start
tracking the budget?

2. Tracking your Budget?

3. Appropriations: Provisions of law that sets aside funds for a
specific obligation and expenditure.
Budget: A financial plan for collecting and allocating resources for a
definite period of time.
Budget Authority: Legal authority to obligate the government to make
immediate or future payments or outlays.
Fiscal Year: A government's accounting period.
Revenues: The yield of sources of income (such as taxes) that a political
entity collects and receives.
Recurrent expenditure – all payments other than for capital assets,
including on goods and services, (wages and salaries, employer
contributions), interest payments, subsidies
and transfers.
capital expenditure – payments for acquisition of fixed capital assets,
stock, land, projects etc.

4. Start with the Data, Finish with a Story
The Guardian UK Data Blog
Newsroom Workflow

5. Budget
Formulation
Budget
Enactment
Execution
Auditing and
Assessment
The Budget Cycle

6. Find
Data
Get
Data
Verify
Data
Analyze
Data
Publish
Data
Your Data Pipeline, init ;)

7. Decide on what
money to follow?

8. Where to find the
budget to follow?

9. Difference between
approved and released

10. Where did the money go?
http://bit.ly/1SJLiL2

11. Identify key decision makers, key staff, and key points
of entry.
Tailor materials appropriately.
Media attention spurs political response.
"No permanent friends, no permanent enemies.”
Work across party lines.
Share the limelight.
Tracking Policymakers?

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Don’t give journalists donkey
work; give them a tool to learn

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14. You have
the power
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