Treasury on pre- budget consultation for 2023 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework
28 July 2022
Introduction
National Treasury is soliciting the public’s views on South Africa’s Fiscal Policy in its pre-budget consultation process. South Africa is one of five pilot countries that are participating in the Fiscal Openness Accelerator Project (FOA) that was launched in 2019 by the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT). The project’s overall objective is to build the technical capacity of selected governments, enhance fiscal transparency and to support the implementation of a public participation pilot in the national budget cycle.
This is the second and final year of the FOA pilot and a slightly different approach will be taken. This year, we will focus on written submissions on a broad range of themes. An online platform will be provided for respondents to discuss and debate issues raised in the submissions. The written inputs will be analysed and the recommendations will be shared with Medium-Term Expenditure Committee (MTEC). All submissions will be published on the Vulekamali budget data portal. The lessons drawn from the two-year pilot will be used for future developments of public participation in the budget process.
Submissions of a maximum of ten pages, including an abstract and a conclusion with specific recommendations, should be emailed to [email protected](link sends e-mail) by 19 August 2022.
Guiding themes:
(a) Fiscal policy (debt management, budget deficit)
(b) Cross cutting (climate change financing, gender responsive budgeting)
(c) Topical Issues
Unemployment
Social security funding