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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 | You can also purchase fiscal data from the government. It mentions you will receive a book. So it seems like the information is still aggregated information in report form. https://www.gov.bw/en/Ministries--Authorities/Ministries/Ministry-of-Finance-and-Development-Planning1/Tools--Services/Services--Forms/?pid=2 |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | Couldn’t find a note about the licensing of the documents. |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | PDF files | |
| location | https://www.gov.bw/en/Ministries--Authorities/Ministries - BUDGET AND EXPEDITURE REPORTS 2017-2018 and 2018 - 2019 | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | Looked for the Ministry of Finance website. They have reports on a few topics. One of them is the budget and expenditure reports. | |
| characteristics | Enacted budget, Ongoing revenues / expenditures, Disaggregation by department, program, expenditure | |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP) | The sources listed in the previous submission were private firms that made reports about the budget speech. |
Original submission by Hubeidatu Nuhu. Changed the resources to link data to a government source. Data is only available as reports, the datasets themselves aren't clear about the approved budget for the year.