Overview

The document is the Budget Implementation Report for the First Quarter of 2009, published by the Budget Office of the Federation under the Federal Ministry of Finance. It includes a foreword by Dr. Mansur Muhtar, Honorable Minister of Finance, emphasizing the budget as a policy instrument for allocating public resources and the mandate under Section 30 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2007 to prepare and publish quarterly reports for monitoring and evaluation. The preface highlights the Budget Office's role in assisting the Minister, promoting budget openness and transparency, and a unique feature of the 2009 Budget being measurable targets and outputs. The report mentions a two-day workshop on budget implementation organized in March 2009 and the development of an electronic monitoring and evaluation system to track progress.

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