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Dormaa East Assembly presents 2023 composite budget

The Dormaa East District Assembly participated in this year’s Regional Budget Hearing held at the Dormaa Central District Assembly Conference Hall.

Date Created : 11/9/2022 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Ghanadistricts.com

The main purpose of the hearing was to renew the Assembly’s revenue and expenditure performance and the target set for 2023-2025 taking into cognizance Government policies and strategies as well as the 2023-2025 Budget Preparation Guidelines made by the Ministry of Finance.

A team led by the District Chief Executive of the area, Mr. Emmanuel Kofi Agyeman, the District Coordinating Director, Mr. John J. Amanah, District Budget Budget Analyst, District Finance Officer, Dist. Auditor, District Information Technology Technician and other abled officers were present.

The DCE opened the meeting by introducing the team members and made a presentation of the district budget.

Presenting the 2023 composite budget for Dormaa East District Assembly, the DCE commenced by briefly highlighting the state and profile of the District that is the performance of the District in-terms of Education, Agriculture, infrastructure, health, security among others.

He gave out the budget and their actuals at October 2022 for the implementation of various Government flagship programmes undertaken in the district such as Planting for Food and Jobs, Planting for Exports and Rural Developments, one district one factory and provision of logistics for successful implementation of Free SHS Programmes.

He further elaborated on the Districts Financial performance as in expenditure by departments where he gave all the expenditure performance and their funding sources.

He also touched on the key performance information for the budget programmes where he briefly highlighted on the economic deliveries of the assembly in the past years.

On finance, he gave out the 2022 key projects and programs from various sources that are projects undertaken in the district.

Furthermore, he touched on the Sanitation Budgets for Solid Waste and outlined the 2022 revenue projections from all sources that are IGF, Compensation Transfer, Goods and Services Transfer, Assets Transfer, DACF and other transfers.

Closing his presentation, he presented a summary of the Expenditure Budget by Department and their Funding Sources and also outlined the Projects and Programs, their Corresponding Cost and Justification respectively for the year 2025 financial year.

The meeting ended successfully with questions being asked and addressed by the committee hearing the budget and team members respectfully.