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BudgIT Sets The Record Straight on Sokoto State Budget Transparency Findings [PRESS RELEASE]

Adewale A. — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:30:42 +0000

BudgIT, a prominent civic tech organisation promoting transparency and accountability in Nigeria’s public finance, has noted recent publications across various media outlets that misrepresented our findings on Sokoto State’s budget and fiscal transparency. While we appreciate the media’s role in fostering dialogue, these reports inaccurately represent our analysis, compelling us to clarify the facts and [...]

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Nigeria Backslides on Fiscal Transparency, Ranks 92nd in Open Budget Survey Global Index

Adewale A. — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 21:53:50 +0000

BudgIT, a leading civic-tech organisation promoting transparency, accountability, and effective service delivery in Nigeria, has expressed concern at the Country’s performance in the 2023 Open Budget Survey (OBS) conducted by the International Budget Partnership (IBP), where Nigeria scored lower than the global average of 45 (out of 100) in the Open Budget Index, ranking below [...]

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BudgIT assesses 36 States’ Procurement Websites, flags 13 for Non-Compliance

Adewale A. — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 11:56:34 +0000

BudgIT, a leading civic-tech organization promoting transparency, accountability, and effective service delivery in Nigeria, under its State Fiscal Transparency League project, has extensively assessed the procurement websites of Nigeria’s 36 states to evaluate the level of transparency and accessibility of procurement-related information to the public. The assessments, categorized into three categories – Green, Yellow, and [...]

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BudgIT Releases Q2 2023 States Fiscal Transparency League: Jigawa tops the List; Sokoto and Benue leads Bottom Five

Adewale A. — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 22:48:04 +0000

BudgIT has released its second-quarter evaluation report of the States Fiscal Transparency League (SFTL) for the second quarter of 2023. The States Fiscal Transparency League aims to sustain the progress achieved through the World Bank’s States Fiscal Transparency, Accountability, and Sustainability (SFTAS) program by monitoring how effectively states uphold fiscal transparency, accountability, accessibility, and proficient [...]

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BudgIT Launches State Fiscal Transparency League (SFTL), Releases Q1 Assessment Report

Adewale A. — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:06:55 +0000

BudgIT, a leading civic-tech organization advocating accountability, transparency, and effective service delivery in Nigeria, has launched its States Fiscal Transparency League (SFTL). The SFTL initiative builds on the recently concluded World Bank’s State Fiscal Transparency, Accountability, and Sustainability (SFTAS) Program, which promoted fiscal transparency and facilitated accountability in public resource management. Recall that the World [...]

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BudgIT Signs Historic MoU with Ondo State to Support Fiscal Transparency, calls on other States to embrace the Initiative

Adewale A. — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 11:48:47 +0000

BudgIT, a foremost civic-tech organisation leading the advocacy for transparency and accountability in Nigeria, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ondo State Government to improve and support fiscal transparency and responsibility in the state. BudgIT did this under its subnational transparency and institutional partnership project across all 36 states. The signing which took [...]

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