Oludotun Babayemi

What can happen

When you start

tracking the budget?

Tracking your Budget?

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.

Start with the Data, Finish with a Story

The Guardian UK Data Blog Newsroom Workflow

Budget Formulation

Budget Enactment

Execution

Auditing and Assessment

The Budget Cycle

Find Data

Get Data

Verify Data

Analyze Data

Publish Data

Your Data Pipeline, init ;)

Decide on what

money to follow?

Where to find the

budget to follow?

Difference between

approved and released

Where did the money go?

http://bit.ly/1SJLiL2

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?

https://goo.gl/C9Kbku

Don’t give journalists donkey

work; give them a tool to learn

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the power

oludotun@connecteddevelopment.org

Thank You!