Promote Financial Transparency (TN0062)

Commitment Description

Financial and fiscal transparency constitutes a fundamental pillar for establishing the principles of open government and a mechanism to enhance integrity, fight corruption and accountability with the aim of rationalizing the management of public finances. To this end, it is necessary to adopt a set of mechanisms and procedures to further support and consolidate them at the level of management of the State's financial resources. In this context, this commitment aims to increase transparency in the management of the State's financial resources through the following: - Develop a new version of the open budget portal (Mizaniatouna) in accordance with the provisions of the new Organic Budget Law No. 15 of 2019, which is mainly based on the development and implementation of the state budget according to the methodology of acting by objectives, allowing access to detailed data of the state budget (resources by source, expenditures by tasks, programs, subprograms, operational units, activities and types of expenditures), - Improve the current version of the citizen's budget: • Develop the state budget in a simplified form that can be viewed and understood by all citizens, • Present this budget in a way that is accessible to people with disabilities, - The possibility of automatically accessing the time data for the budget closing report and the monthly, quarterly and semi-annual budget execution reports.

The problem to solve

While the financial system is compatible with international standards and specifications in the area of financial transparency and the availability and exchange of information, still: - The mechanisms put in place at the practical level still fall short of the expectations of the various stakeholders and citizens, since they do not take into account the needs of all those interested in public finances, in addition to the limited effectiveness of the instruments established and aimed at increasing financial transparency. - The shortfall recorded by some organizations in meeting the deadlines for the submission of some reports has not been remedied.

Determine the objectives for implementing the commitment/expected results

Promote financial transparency through: - Develop the current version of the Open Budget Portal in accordance with the strategic directions and vision of the Ministry and the aspirations of civil society, facilitating access to public data related to public finances and the implementation of the state budget, and making them available to the public in an open form that enhances their reuse and exploitation by users, - Provide a simplified version of the budget that citizens can understand, taking into account people with disabilities, - Ability to automatically view the first temporary data of the budget closing report.

How will the commitment help solve the problems/change the reality?

- Strengthen financial transparency and fight corruption and misuse of public funds, - Promote access to and re-use of public data of interest to public finance, - Create practical and simple mechanisms that allow citizens to see and follow the process of preparing and implementing the state budget, - Avoid the shortfall recorded at the level of publishing some of the required reports.

Proportionality to the main axes

- Instill transparency by facilitating access to financial management information and timely reporting, - Strengthen accountability by establishing effective mechanisms to monitor the management of public financial resources and the extent to which they are managed.

Funding source/relationship to other programs and policies

- The World Bank (WB) regarding financing the process of developing a new version of the open budget portal (Mizaniatouna) - Open Government Partnership Civil Forum (FORUM CIVIL OGP) to fund the processof preparing the state budget in a simplified way that can accessed and understood by all citizens, taking into account people with disabilities

Phases and implementation schedule

Development of a new version of the open budget portal (Mizaniatouna)

December 2023 Portal design, development, and testing The first phase concerns the state budget.

March 2024 Launch the portal (first phase) on line

December 2024 Design and development of the portal (remaining phases: Institutional budgets, municipal budgets, social spending, ...), testing and launch the Portal on line

Promote open public finance data

December 2024 Development of the simplified state budget for citizens and people with disabilities