African Data Revolution: Survey
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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 | While the data is free, translating it from PDF to excel or CSV for easier use can be costly. |
| Downloadable | Yes | The data can be retrieved by going to budget.go.ug and searching for a particular Financial year, region, district and sub-county. The downloads however are in PDFs |
| Publicly available | Yes | However the data is mostly in PDFs |
| Openly licenced | No | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | The data is published every financial year and is as of this survey, up to date |
| In an open and machine-readable format | Other, XLS | The data are published in PDFs |
| location | https://www.budget.go.ug/budget/ - Uganda Budget Information portal | The Budget portal allows one to explore historical government budget and performance information. The data produces a data table based on the categories (such as fiscal years, sectors or types of expenditure) one has chosen. One can select the budget categories he/she wants to view. It enables you to make quick and instant budget comparison between sectors (inter-sectoral) and within sectors (intra-sectoral), and across financial years. The dashboard includes budget information going back to Financial year 2003/04. The data however is mostly in PDFs |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | Search through the Ministry of Finance website | |
| characteristics | Enacted budget, Ongoing revenues / expenditures, Disaggregation by department, program, expenditure | The Ministry runs a separate budget portal showing both the allocations and the expenditures in all sectors, departments and agencies from national to the project level. |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Ministry of Finance Planning and economic Development | The Ministry of finance publishes |