Grand Bassam hosts the regional workshop on the transformation of the traditional budget into a functional budget

Abstract

The Government of Cote d'Ivoire, through the National Population Office (ONP), launched on Monday in Grand Bassam the regional workshop on the transformation of the traditional budget into a functional budget for a demographic dividend sensitive budgeting (DDSB) in six ECOWAS countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Niger, Senegal, Togo). This workshop consists of training participants on the methodology for transforming the traditional budget into a functional budget and restructuring the traditional budgets into functional form according to the methodology of demographic budgeting. In his speech at the opening ceremony, the Director-General of the ONP of Cote d'Ivoire, Mr. Moustapha Hinin, indicated that: "If our countries want to address the important challenges they face in terms of population and development, it is essential that normative tools be developed to provide the necessary evidence to key actors in the budget preparation process as well as to policy makers for more informed decision making”.