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Ethiopia: State Agencies Table Budget Requests to MoFED
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Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa)
28 April 2008
Posted to the web 28 April 2008
Wudineh Zenebe
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED) was occupied last week with a budget hearing of state Agencies for the 2008/2009 budget year. The Agencies have presented their requests to the office of the Ministry up to March 26, 2008.
Two weeks ago, all organizations presented their budget request with a proposal for their regular and capital projects to be carried out next year.
Chaired by Sufian Ahmed, Minister of MoFED, the budget hearing is conducted with the participation of the ministry's budget experts, and the budget seeking agencies with their time schedule.
The amount of money to be allocated for each Agency was decided after each meeting, except ERA's budget which was to be reviewed in another meeting, sources told Fortune. The authority requested 12 billion Br loans for the budget years of 2008/2009 from the federal government.
As the money was found to be too huge an amount for MoFED to afford to give, the re quest would be discussed in another meeting.
In the 2007/08 budget year, the budget allocated for ERA was 5.6 billion Br though it had requested 8.8 billion Br.
The next government institution to request a large amount of money, next to ERA, was the Ministry of Education (MoE). The Ministry is currently busy with 62 projects, of which 23 focus on higher education and 24 on technical and vocational training programs. The remaining amount is earmarked for other education related programs.
Of the overall projects, 82.8 pc focus on the expansion of higher education in the country. MoE is expected to seriously implement projects already started this year after tabling a two billion Br request last year.
Something which baffled officials at MOFED was the 300 million Br request from the Government Housing Agency.
"The Government Housing Agency has been turned by proclamation, just into Housing Administration yet, it has requested a budget for housing construction," sources told Fortune.
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GHA administers 16 thousand houses in Addis Abeba and Dire-dawa. It was initially called Rented Houses Agency (RHA) and was interested in the real estate business. The Ministry of Councils, in January 2008, decided that as the Ethiopian Housing Development Corporation was involved in housing, GHA would place emphasis on administrative issues.
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