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National government budget, that is the planned government expenditure for high-level activities, but not a fine-grained list of expenditure items. Open budget data allows for well-informed publics: showing where money is spent on, how public funds develop over time, and why certain activities are funded.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Downloadable | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | ||
| location | https://www.dgb.gov.bf/images/06_depenses_2018vf.pdf - planned expenses, https://www.dgb.gov.bf/index.php?option=com_edocman&task - planned incomes, https://www.dgb.gov.bf/index.php?option=com_content&view - landing page with many budget documents, https://www.dgb.gov.bf/index.php?option=com_edocman&task - Directive on budget data publication | The direction of budget have adopted a directive of budget data publication that state that the data must be published online as open data, but have not yet implemented yet. The excel file of the budget is available on demand at the direction |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | Checked on the website of the direction of the budget, and confirmed with a phone call with a civil servant working at the budget direction. | |
| characteristics | Enacted budget, Ongoing revenues / expenditures, Disaggregation by department, program, expenditure | |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Direction Générale du Budget |
No changes in the submission. Data is available in PDF. The submitter included a link to Boost data, but it is only available until 2015, the link is included here for reference. https://www.dgb.gov.bf/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=181:boost-burkina&catid=2&Itemid=277