[OpenSpending] Current, structured, detailed budget for a developing country?

Lucy Chambers lucy.chambers at okfn.org
Thu Sep 5 15:20:22 UTC 2013


Think there are a couple of Excel files in there - but I also can't put my
hands on them right now!

Lucy


On 5 September 2013 16:41, Mark Brough
<mark.brough at publishwhatyoufund.org>wrote:

> Thanks Lucy!
>
> I'm looking for preferably a budget which we're currently in the middle of
> (e.g. a FY13 budget where FY13 includes the current date). But FY12 would
> perhaps be ok.
>
> I'll have a look in the IBP budget library - which looks like a great
> resource, although the ones I've clicked through to so far are all in PDF.
> Will have a look around...
>
> thanks,
> Mark
>
>
> On 5 September 2013 14:03, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm not sure what "up to date" means here. But also recommend having a
>> look in the Google Drive Budget Library from the International Budget
>> Partnership from their 2012 survey:
>>
>>
>> https://drive.google.com/a/okfn.org/folderview?pli=1&id=0ByA9wmvBrAnZN3ZrdzNzcS1JZzg#
>>
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>>
>> Lucy
>>
>>
>> On 3 September 2013 23:05, Mark Brough <
>> mark.brough at publishwhatyoufund.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, no problem. The budgets are here (on the Tanzanian Ministry of
>>> Finance site):
>>>
>>> http://www.mof.go.tz/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=20&Itemid=205
>>>
>>> This is my scraper of the development budget PDF (my first PDF scraper,
>>> so it's not pretty):
>>> https://github.com/markbrough/tz-budget
>>>
>>> CSV data output (there are some mistakes because of the scraper):
>>> https://raw.github.com/markbrough/tz-budget/master/data.csv
>>>
>>> Ugandan budget is also available here (and see links on the side and
>>> around) - on the pretty cool new Uganda budget site:
>>> http://budget.go.ug/budget/content/national-budget-framework-paper-1
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> On 3 September 2013 21:36, Joseph Kraus <joseph.kraus at one.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi Mark, ****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, no, just the PDF. (and a hard copy, which doesn’t suit
>>>> your purposes either!). That’s all that we were able to get our hands on.
>>>> ****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> Would you mind sharing the Tanzania budget? Would be much appreciated.
>>>> ****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> Best,****
>>>>
>>>> Joe****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> *From:* openspending-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:
>>>> openspending-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On Behalf Of *Mark Brough
>>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 03, 2013 3:49 PM
>>>> *To:* OpenSpending Discussion List
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [OpenSpending] Current, structured, detailed budget for
>>>> a developing country?****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> Joseph,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot for this and good to meet you.****
>>>>
>>>> You don't happen to have it in Excel/CSV? I have a PDF budget for
>>>> Tanzania already for FY13, but I was hoping to avoid any more PDF scraping
>>>> (I scraped the development budget last Monday, and it wasn't all that
>>>> fun...)****
>>>>
>>>> Mark****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> On 3 September 2013 20:27, Joseph Kraus <joseph.kraus at one.org> wrote:**
>>>> **
>>>>
>>>> Mark and others who may be interested, ****
>>>>
>>>>  ****
>>>>
>>>> Here are links to the 2013-2014 Malawian government’s budget. It’s
>>>> large, hence the three separate files. Feel free to use and/or share. Let
>>>> me know if you have any trouble accessing the files. ****
>>>>
>>>>  ****
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16118918/Malawi%20Gov't%20Budgets/Malawi%20Goverment%20Volume%20I.pdf
>>>> ****
>>>>
>>>>  ****
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16118918/Malawi%20Gov't%20Budgets/Malawi%20Government%20Volume%20II.pdf
>>>> ****
>>>>
>>>>  ****
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16118918/Malawi%20Gov't%20Budgets/Malawi%20Government%20Volume%20III.pdf
>>>> ****
>>>>
>>>>  ****
>>>>
>>>> Best,****
>>>>
>>>> Joe****
>>>>
>>>>  ****
>>>>
>>>> *From:* openspending-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:
>>>> openspending-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On Behalf Of *Mark Brough
>>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 03, 2013 2:16 PM
>>>> *To:* openspending
>>>> *Subject:* [OpenSpending] Current, structured, detailed budget for a
>>>> developing country?****
>>>>
>>>>  ****
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Just wanted to send a quick email round in case anyone has a current,
>>>> structured, detailed budget, for a developing country?****
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for:****
>>>>
>>>> - national level, all sectors / departments (sub-national or regional
>>>> data would also be interesting)****
>>>>
>>>> - program or project-level expenditure****
>>>>
>>>> - current year (FY13)****
>>>>
>>>> - recurrent and development/capital budgets****
>>>>
>>>> - administrative classifications (if possible), functional or
>>>> programmatic classifications would also be good****
>>>>
>>>> - machine-readable****
>>>>
>>>> - preferably a fairly big receiver of aid (and preferably from many
>>>> different sources, so probably sub-Saharan Africa)****
>>>>
>>>>  ****
>>>>
>>>> Would be great, working on a little project :-)****
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>> Mark****
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ****
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mark Brough
>>>> Aid Information Advisor, Publish What You Fund
>>>> http://www.publishwhatyoufund.org
>>>> Skype: mark-brough - Twitter: @mark_brough****
>>>>
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