Budget is not exclusive to experts BOCONGO

NGOs should be part and parcel of drawing up the national budget, the Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (BOCONGO) has said.

Presenting the 2012-2013 Civil Society National Budget Analysis Report at a BOCONGO meeting in Gaborone this week, Dr Emmanuel Botlhale, said budgeting was "a public interest matter that must not be seen as a matter for the executive and technical experts such a economists".

Botlhale, who is a senior lecturer in public finance at the University of Botswana, said NGOs were best placed to draw the budget because they had no interest compared to government, and therefore would not be partial to any social class.

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