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BudgIT Foundation is a foremost civic-tech organisation leading the advocacy for fiscal transparency and accountability in Nigeria’s public finance, as well as across other African Countries. We play an active role in project tracking and implementation in Nigeria’s 36 states and also have a series of tech products that help citizens to follow the budget and government spending thereby holding elected officials accountable. Join us every month for conversations on grassroots engagement, governance, public finance, budget analysis, project tracking and service delivery, extractive transparency and social innovation.
Episodes
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Can 200m people ’Japa’ from Nigeria?
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Good governance cannot happen without active citizens. It is the responsibility of the government, CSOs and citizens to ensure good governance in Nigeria. Instead of ‘Japa plans’, Citizens need to pick up the mantle and play their part in ensuring a better democratic society. This episode captures the need for citizens’ involvement in grassroots engagement and community development.
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
The Sovereign Wealth Fund: Has Nigeria lost the opportunity to save for the future?
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
The rapidly changing dynamics and volatility of the oil market have underscored the need for building material fiscal savings. Hence, the establishment of the Excess Crude Account (ECA) and Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) by the federal government. This episode captures the operations, objectives and issues of the Sovereign Wealth Fund and the Excess Crude Oil Account as strategic tools for sustainable development.
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Open Contracting: Are States Making Progress or Not?
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Monday Apr 18, 2022
The second episode of the conversation on Open Contracting focuses on the challenges of its implementation at the subnational level, the contributions of Civil Society Organizations, the role of legislatures, and the next steps.
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Public Procurement and Open Contracting at the Subnational Level.
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Open contracting and transparency in public procurement have proven to reduce corruption, be cost-effective and improve citizens' involvement in governance. In this episode, we sat with some bright minds of BudgIT to discuss how open contracting and public procurement is beneficial to subnational governments and the contributions of Civil Society Organizations in the implementation process.
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Raising a New Generation of Leaders: My YLP 2021/2022 Impact Story
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
For Africa to fully harness the potential of its youth agency, achieve rapid economic growth and work effectively towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, there is a critical need for inclusive programs on youth development. In this episode, catch the next generation of change leaders as they share their experience and thought projects from the Youth Leadership Programme 2022.
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Fiscal Transparency in SOEs: what is the state of play?
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
The conversation continues on the role of transparency and accountability in the governance of State-Owned Enterprises. The discussion addressed understanding the roles citizens can play in the transparency and accountability space, how not having a transparent and accountable set of government-owned companies can affect the private sector investments and the gains of having a clear and answerable public government.
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
FG’s 2022 Budget: Does Nigeria have a revenue or an expenditure problem?
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
More discoveries have been made following the passing of the 2022 budget. This episode captures these issues and their economic implications, while exploring the effectiveness and efficiency of the Federal Government expenditure management, as it relates to fiscal and monetary matters.
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Spotlight on Fiscal Transparency in Nigeria‘s State-Owned Enterprises
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Governments the world over, often carry out business through State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). Most times, these enterprises are set up to administer their minerals sector, energy or special trade zones, among other things. However, there is usually little known about the financial management, fiscal supervision and profit making of the enterprises. What is more, they are run in very opaque ways and their officers lack the accountability that would make their management open and effective.
In this episode, we discuss how transparency and accountability are crucial to the management of State-owned Enterprises.
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
An Assessment of Nigeria‘s Extractive Industry
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
This episode highlights outstanding natural resources issues in Nigeria, options for emergency and long-route interventions. It also discusses issues to be prioritized and intervention strategies non-state actors can adopt to catalyse appropriate policy response from state-actors in a post COVID-19 world.
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
An Analysis of the Proposed 2022 Budget
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
This episode captures the intricacies of the proposed 2022 budget, exploring subjects like debt and deficit, revenue projection, concerns and what the Federal government plans to spend on critical sectors of the economy in the fiscal year 2022.
Want to know what the proposed budget looks like? Take a listen.