The Dormaa East District Assembly has participated in this year’s Regional Budget Hearing held at Dormaa.
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 cognisance the government’s 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 (DCE) of the area, Mr. Emmanuel Kofi Agyeman, the District Coordinating Director, Mr. John J. Amanah, District Budget Analyst, District Finance Officer, District Auditor, District Information Technology Technician and other officers participated in the programme.
The DCE briefly highlighted the state and profile of the District in terms of education, agriculture, infrastructure, health, and security among others.
He gave out the budget actuals as at October 2022 for the implementation of the 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 the Free Senior High School (SHS) Programmes.
He further elaborated on the Districts Financial performance, as in expenditure, by departments and gave all the expenditure performance and their funding sources.
He also touched on the key performance information for the budget programmes, and 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 were 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 were Internally Generated Funds (IGF), Compensation Transfer, Goods and Services Transfer, Assets Transfer, DACF and other transfers.
Closing his presentation, he gave 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.
