Survey Ranking: Report Says Jigawa, Kaduna, Delta Tops 2018 States Budget Transparency - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 11, 2019
Jigawa, Kaduna and Delta states have emerged first, second and third in State’s budget transparency in the country. This was contained in the 2018 report of the Nigerian States Budget Transparency Survey unveiled in Kaduna.
According to the report,Jigawa scored eighty-seven points, Kaduna State seventy-two points, while Deltatrailed with sixty-four points. It also indicated that Bauchi, Borno and Riversstates occupied the 33rd, 35th and 36th positions in the survey ranking.
The survey was conductedby Civil Resource Development and Documentation Centre, CIRDDOC Enugu, inpartnership with Connecting Gender for Development, COGEN and supported byDFID.
The Executive Director,Aid Foundation, Emmanuel Bonet, who presented the report, explained that thesurvey focused on three key indicators.
He identified theindicators as: timely publication budget information; public participation inthe budget process; and sound and transparent procurement processes and systemsas entrenched in the Open Governance Partnership, OGP.