Progress reporting and evaluation of development budgets

Abstract

This paper focused on the establishment of economic Planning machineries in different African countries during the last decade has brought to the fore-the need for achieving harmonization of fiscal and budgetary procedures and policies with development planning for obtaining better plan implementation. The problem has also been debated on extensively in various seminars and workshops sponsored in the United Nations and its regional commissions during the last two decades and recommendations made for improving relationship between planning and government budgeting. Research studies in this respect have also been carried out to devise- procedures to secure better budget-plan harmonization in the context of the special, conditions of the developing countries in Africa.