cover image: Governance Brief 18 - July 2022 - Reviewing the Federal Government of Somalia’s 2022

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Governance Brief 18 - July 2022 - Reviewing the Federal Government of Somalia’s 2022

28 Jul 2022

Although the Upper House session where members of the parliament questioned the the annual government budget has Minister of Finance on the closure of the previously approved budgets – for progressively increased by around which they later formed a committee – the bicameral parliament approved the $816 million over the past 9 years, federal government 2022 budget on 30 June 2022. [...] This of Labor and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Education and means that the government projects a decline of $10 Higher Education, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of million of its anticipated domestic revenue of $260.1 Youth and Sport, and the Ministry of Women and Human million for 2021. [...] The budget was allocated to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education ($8.4 million), donor-funded education projects ($12.1 million), the Somali National University ($7.2 million), the Somali Academy of Science and Arts ($1.1 million), and the Intergovernmental Academy of the Somali Language ($1.4 million). [...] The The budget appropriated for the Ministry of Women orphans of the deceased armed forces and disabled forces and Human Rights increased from $990,644 million in were appropriated a mere $115,000, also the same as in the 2021 to $2.3 million in 2022. [...] The reduction of the percentage of the defense and security budget to 18.3 percent of the total budget is only a reflection of the significant budget increase in other sectors, particularly the social service budget.

Authors

Mahad abdullahi

Pages
4
Published in
Somalia