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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 | Provision is made on the page for 'download' |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | It is clearly stated that data is upgraded annually and there are figures to prove that. |
| In an open and machine-readable format | ||
| location | https://mofed.gov.sl/index.php/budget/annual-budget - | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | I went to the Government portal (gov.sl) then went to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development | |
| characteristics | Enacted budget, Ongoing revenues / expenditures, Disaggregation by department, program, expenditure | |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies and Statistics Sierra Leone | |
| licence_url | There are no disclaimers and no other restrictive terms of use. |
Original submission linked to budget reports, not the actual budget. The provided link gave a 404 error, accessing the ministry's website allows you to go the different approved budgets. The latest being 2014 - 2018 where you can find the enacted budget, as well as estimates, and revenues.