Much ado about budget: Here in Tanzania we shrug off these things

nchemba

Tanzania's Finance Minister Mwigulu Nchemba. PHOTO | NMG 

Tanzanian budgets are built from the grassroots up — at least on paper. We have processes; we can get participants from our local communities all the way up to contributing to the discussions at a parliamentary committee level. On paper.

In real life, it is yet another top-down experience of government. Arguably one of the more important ones.