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    "content": "that will modernize the Government and prioritize new interventions. My Committee would like to see synergy in the ongoing process of rationalization and re-organization of the national Government. The Budget and Appropriations Committee has also noted a less than optimal understanding of the programme based budgeting logic among the national Government Ministries. The programme based budget (PBB) framework seeks to make an explicit indivisible linkage between administrative units and programme activities. While this makes it simple to cost programmes, the approach as adopted has led to the design of programmes that conform to organizational structures instead of policy based outcomes. My Committee has also noted that the itemized Budget presented do not align to the programme based budget descriptions in all circumstances. The Budget and Appropriations Committee will seek to adopt and profile, in collaboration with the National Treasury, the comprehensive adoption of PBB as a basis for Budget making. In this regard, all effort must be made to secure the National Treasury’s continued capacity enhancement on PBB including the relevant training programmes for Accounting Officers, the National Assembly, the National Treasury core-Budget staff, the Controller of Budget and the Auditor-General while incorporating the change management components and leadership imperatives to support the programmes. In this respect, my Committee will require the Controller of Budget’s quarterly reports to Parliament to include progress review on achievement of targets of the various State agencies. We will be recommending that the House endorses this directive and not accept a report of the Controller of Budget that does not include information on performance targets. This House may also wish to consider issuing directions to the National Treasury to ensure that all future itemized budget estimates and their corresponding administrative head descriptions are aligned to the program descriptions, outlined in the Programme Based Budgeting. In this regard, efforts should be made to re-define the line itemized estimates, to relate to the program descriptions of each Ministry. It is important that my colleagues in other committees also note that we have directed the Parliamentary Budget Committee to make sure that, before guidelines are given to guide the Budget scrutiny next financial year, those guidelines must be approved by my Committee ahead of time. Excessive public expenditure impacts largely on fiscal balance. Increasing revenue to cope with escalating public expenditure is not realistic especially in the transition phase of our implementation of the new Constitution. Therefore, increasing revenue is vital. Decreasing Government spending is an urgent need, with a view to containing non-developmental expenditure, thereby releasing additional resources for meeting the resources for priority projects. The national Government will need to undertake a radical rationalization of administrative costs and those of expenditure items. This will allow for a stretching of our finite resources and our getting the best value for money, in addition to fully financing the core priority programmes for our people. In the meantime it is recommended that the national Government begins conceptualizing the establishment on an intergrated public sector, where public agencies collaborate across boundaries, and with the public to enhance performance and deliver better value. Government agencies need to envision working together, to operate under shared service structures for functions such as administration, information technology, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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