Monrovia – The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency(GIFT) and the International Budget Partnership has recognize the effort the George Weah-led government has made to promote budget transparency. In 2019, Liberia was selected to be part of the Fiscal Openness Accelerator, a project to pilot public participation mechanism in the budget process and further improve in budget transparency. Now, the organizations say, they would like to take some additional steps, small but with significant impact. GIFT also expressed interests in discussing with authorities at the Ministry of Finance, the concrete, possible and simple steps the Ministry could take to substantially improve budget transparency and public participation that are in line with the CBS 2019 results for Liberia as well as the targets set in IBP’s call to action on open budget. “These are times of profound, painful uncertain transformation, unlike anything we have ever experienced before.

Source: Front Page Africa June 16, 2020 21:11 UTC