Tag: Budget
Government requests 33.99 bln birr supplementary budget
In an attempt to fill funding gaps in on-going government projects and to accommodate the upcoming costs of population and housing census in addition to other expenditures, the Ethiopian Government has requested a supplementary budget of 33.9 billion birr, The Reporter has learnt.
LRT awaits response from city admin for 1.5 bln birr subsidy
The Addis Ababa Light Railway Transit (AA-LRT) announced that it is awaiting the Addis Ababa City Administration’s response for its requests for budget subsidy amounting to 1.5 billion birr to cover its expense for spare-parts and administration costs.
House approves 14 bln birr supplementary budget
Upon the request made by the government three weeks ago, the House of People’s Representatives (HPR), on Tuesday approved a 14 billion birr (around USD 510 million) supplementary budget to finance natural and unexpected disasters, youth revolving fund and other activities that are being carried out by the federal government.
Government backtracks on supplementary budget
Rolling back on its shift made eight years ago while moving from line-item budgeting to program budgeting, the Council of Ministers once again approved a supplementary budget of 14 billion birr this week. The current supplementary budget came for the eighth year in a row since the introduction of the new type of budgeting in the country.
MoFEC orders public agencies to submit details of current projects
-No supplementary budget this FY
During a two-day meeting which took place this week with all public universities and federal budgetary institutions and ministries, Abraham Tekeste (PhD), Minister of Finance and Economic Cooperation (MoFEC), has ordered all the agencies to submit the status and profiles of their ongoing projects until November 9, 2017.