Reform #27: Reform Financial Management System
Modernize public financial management through integrated systems, citizen budget portals, scientific budgeting, and strengthened oversight to eliminate waste and enhance accountability.
Financial management suffers from fragmented systems, weak accountability, oversized budgets, low spending rates, and limited public scrutiny enabling inefficiency and corruption.
- 1Connect all government financial systems so they work together and share information
- 2Create citizen budget portal showing real-time ward-level budget and spending data
- 3Replace National Planning Commission with Finance Ministry planning division
- 4Enforce strict budget limits and prevent staff transfers during fiscal years
- 5Establish Parliamentary Budget Office and make performance audits mandatory
South Korea, Chile, and Philippines have citizen budget portals enabling real-time transparency
India and Philippines show mandatory performance audits improve project outcomes
Kenya and Rwanda demonstrate digitized procurement reduces corruption
New Zealand's hard budget constraints achieve higher execution rates
Complete system integration and launch citizen portal within 1-2 years
Reform procurement with digitized processes and legal protections
Restructure planning and enforce budget discipline through institutional changes
Establish Parliamentary Budget Office with enhanced oversight powers
Complete system interoperability within 2 years
Real-time ward-level budget data accessible to all citizens
Scientific budgeting with evidence-based projections
50% improvement in budget execution efficiency
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