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Africa-Press<\/a> – Mozambique<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Institute for Multi-party Democracy (IMD), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), said on Monday that the Mozambican state budget needs greater transparency.<\/p>\n

There are \u201cchallenges related to transparency in revenue management\u201d, and there is a \u201cdeficit in the implementation of legislation, in a context of limited resources,\u201d said D\u00e9rcio Alfazema, leader of the IMD, after a seminar with members of parliament.<\/p>\n

The organisation is calling for \u201cstricter political supervision\u201d by members of parliament, particularly concerning \u201caccountability\u201d and \u201ctransparency in the management of public resources,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The meeting, which included an information session aimed at members of parliament on budgetary issues, was held on Saturday in the town of Bilene, in the south of the country, just days before the start of a new parliamentary session in which the budget for 2022 is one of the items on the agenda.<\/p>\n

The president of the Planning and Budget Commission, Ant\u00f3nio Niquice, noted that the advent of decentralisation decreed in 2018 in an understanding between the government of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) and the main opposition party, the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), made it difficult to divide a budget that was already scarce.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a budget that used to be \u2018one\u2019, for action by the provincial government,\u201d while \u201cnow it is divided into three. This is indeed a difficult situation, but these are the resources we have, and we have to share them out.<\/p>\n

The budget that was previously channelled to the actions of the provincial governments, with \u201cdecentralisation, has passed to three bodies: provincial executive councils, the council of provincial state services and provincial assemblies,\u201d the IMD statement noted.<\/p>\n

At the meeting, Niquice also said that the country should aim for an \u201cincrease in exports\u201d to raise \u201cmore foreign currency\u201d and broaden \u201cthe tax base\u201d.<\/p>\n

Covid-19 has complicated the scenario, he acknowledged, especially in a country like Mozambique: \u201cIt is difficult to redistribute in a context in which resources are scarce\u201d and \u201cthe needs are enormous,\u201d the MP stressed, also pointing to the withdrawal of direct support for the state budget by international partners as another difficulty.<\/p>\n

Direct support was withdrawn in 2016 after it was discovered that Mozambique had incurred hidden debts of US$2.7 billion (\u20ac2.3 million) for public maritime defence companies that never worked \u2013 a case currently on trial in Maputo with 19 defendants.<\/p>\n

The Mozambican government forecasts economic growth of 2.9% in 2022 and a deficit of 157 billion meticais (\u20ac2.1 billion) \u2013 around 14% of GDP.<\/p>\n

The proposed Economic and Social Programme and state budget for 2022 were approved on Thursday at an extraordinary cabinet meeting and sent to parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Institute for Multi-party Democracy (IMD), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), said on Monday that the Mozambican state budget needs greater transparency. There are \u201cchallenges related to transparency in revenue management\u201d, and there is a \u201cdeficit in the implementation of legislation, in a context of limited resources,\u201d said D\u00e9rcio Alfazema, leader of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-7509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"\nMozambique: State Budget needs more transparency, accountability \u2013 NGO - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Institute for Multi-party Democracy (IMD), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), said on Monday that the Mozambican ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-state-budget-needs-more-transparency-accountability-ngo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mozambique: State Budget needs more transparency, accountability \u2013 NGO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Institute for Multi-party Democracy (IMD), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), said on Monday that the Mozambican ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-state-budget-needs-more-transparency-accountability-ngo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-19T16:30:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2021\/10\/img-616ee5edd3bef.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"926\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"583\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-state-budget-needs-more-transparency-accountability-ngo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-state-budget-needs-more-transparency-accountability-ngo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mozambique: State Budget needs more transparency, accountability \u2013 NGO\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-19T16:30:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-state-budget-needs-more-transparency-accountability-ngo\"},\"wordCount\":438,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-state-budget-needs-more-transparency-accountability-ngo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2021\/10\/img-616ee5edd3bef.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mozambique\",\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-state-budget-needs-more-transparency-accountability-ngo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-state-budget-needs-more-transparency-accountability-ngo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-state-budget-needs-more-transparency-accountability-ngo\",\"name\":\"Mozambique: State Budget needs more transparency, accountability \u2013 NGO - 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