The Upper West Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), has organised a training programme for the various heads of departments to help them in the development and implementation of the composite budget for 2013.
Through the training programme, the heads would understand
the composite budgeting guidelines used in the preparation of the 2013
composite budget and its impact.
Mr J.B. Atogiba, the Chief Director at the RCC who addressed
the participants, noted that the implementation of the composite budget which had
remained at the piloting stage for years would help to monitor and make
government budget very effective.
The programme would also help most organisations who do not
have a monitoring framework to develop one to help in the implementation of the
composite budget.
Mr Atogiba called for the effective monitoring of the
composite budget for 2013 in order not to allow problems that could cause some
organisations to want to draw back from the system.
Mr Eric Oduro Osae, Dean of Studies and Research at the Institute
of Local Government, said there was the need for old districts to support new
districts in order to deepen and develop effective systems to receive the
disaggregated plans and budget, as well as preparing to develop their own
composite budget for 2013.
He said the programme was to support the RCC to develop and
implement a credible monitoring and evaluation framework to effectively
coordinate and monitor the activities of municipal and district assemblies in
composite budget implementation.
Mr Osae said local governments in Ghana were faced with
financing gaps and increasingly being challenged to evolve practical approaches
to expand.
He urged them to expand their local tax base and revenue
through the adoption of good practices in financial management and new
innovations. - GNA
