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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 | but some are in pdf |
| Publicly available | Yes | The government has published data from only some years between 2010-2016 on the site opendata Togo |
| Openly licenced | No | No details are made about the license. the CGU is not clear |
| Up-to-date | No | There is only data from 2010 to 2016 on the opendata Togo website. However, the 2010 file contains no data. |
| In an open and machine-readable format | XLS | |
| location | https://opendata.gouv.tg/dataset/budget-de-letat - site opendata Togo, https://finances.gouv.tg/fr/content/loi-de-finances-2016 - site of Ministry of Economics And Finance | on the website of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, it is published for example the 2016 budget but in pdf at the bottom of an article |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | We visited the openData Togo website. Then, to check if there were other data, we click the link to the website of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. We also do research in google with the themes "budget of the Togolese government" | |
| characteristics | Enacted budget | |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Direction du budget | The budget department (Direction du budget) is part of the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Development Planning (MEFPD) |
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