Zanzibar develops means to hold its govt accountable

Zanzibar is launching a digital budgeting and planning system to improve openness in governance.

According to Business Insider, the Island country hopes to establish uniformity and foster responsibility among planners, implementers, and decision-makers with this concept.

The Zanzibar administration claims that manual planning and budgeting would be ineffective.

The East African country reported that the new digital budgeting system, the Planning, Budgeting, and Reporting System (PlanRep), would be developed in conjunction with the United States Agency for International Development.

The Budget officer from the President’s Office of Financing and Planning in Zanzibar, Ms. Khadija Alhaji Bakari, revealed that the previous system used by the government was obsolete and frequently inaccurate.

She mentioned that manual budgeting and planning provided a lot of likelihood for error, which this new digital approach will help to address. READ MORE

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