Actors from several civil society organizations (CSOs) in the cities of Bouaké and Brobo were sensitized on Monday July 31 and Tuesday August 1, 2023 on the budget process on the citizen budget within the framework a vast awareness campaign initiated since 2019 by the Ministry of Budget and State Portfolio and led by the Country Capacity Building Program (PPRC) of the Ministry for the Promotion, Good Governance and the Fight against corruption. According to the sectoral coordinator of this program, Frédéric Abé, the aim of this awareness campaign is to explain the process of drawing up the citizen budget, the various actors involved and the content of the actions planned by the State. “It is a question of informing the populations on what the State plans to do, but also on the way in which they can give their opinion in this budgetary process”, he said. Clearly, it was about making people understand that the State budget is everyone’s business because the citizen is at the heart of public action. “Public action begins with citizens expressing needs and ends with citizens satisfying those needs. This is why the citizen must take an interest in it, make proposals, follow up, make recommendations and above all express his needs or his dissatisfaction when the actions are not carried out correctly,” said Mr. Abé. He therefore called on civil society organizations, intermediate structures between the State and the populations, to fully play their role, by obtaining information, by training, but also by mobilizing the prefectural authorities, the communities, the administration public author of the needs of the populations. “The whole thing is not to transmit these needs to the competent authorities, but you must ensure that they are met”, indicated the sectoral coordinator of the PPRC to the leaders of the CSOs of Bouaké and Brobo. Côte d’Ivoire’s 2023 budget amounts in resources and expenditure to 11,694.4 billion CFA francs distributed according to the six pillars of the National Development Plan (PND 2021-2025). Namely, structural transformation of the economy through industrialization and cluster development, development of human capital and promotion of employment, development of the private sector and investment and strengthening of inclusion , national solidarity and social action. Balanced regional development, the preservation of the environment and the fight against global warming as well as the strengthening of governance, the modernization of the State and cultural transformation, are also included in the action plan of this PND.

Source: Agence Ivoirienne De Presse