The Sokoto State Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planing, Dr Abubakar Zayyana, says state government has prioritises programme-based budgeting model to ensure impactful results and outcomes.
Zayyana stated this when he declared open a one-day stakeholders’ budget review meeting organized by his ministry in collaboration with United Nation Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) on Friday in Sokoto.
He stressed that the approach was inline with the global standards and urged donor agencies, ministries and departments to support compliance which would give opportunity to execute and implement desirable projects and services to the citizens.
He commended UNICEF for capacity building programmes and collaboration initiatives rendered to the state government at all levels.
He noted that the concluded local government chairmen training on social protection initiatives would surely urgument the approach.
According to him, with the support government have placed medium and long term budget processes with focus on intentional results, implementation strategies and resulted oriented platforms.
He said traditional model of preparing projects, programmes and services was outlawed now deployed the modern methods of programme-based budgeting.
The Commissioner highlighted the importance of programme-based budgeting in promoting efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability in public spending.
” The 2026 annual budget preparation aligns with the requirements of the State Fiscal Transparency Accountability (SFTA).
” Budgeting approach prioritises the result oriented spending that benefits the state’s most vulnerable populations, particularly women and children,” he said.
He praised the Gov. Ahmad Aliyu’s leadership and commitment to driving the state’s development, acknowledging his unwavering support and commitment in implementing programmes and projects that have direct impact to the lives of people in the state generally.
Dr Michel Juma, the Chief of UNICEF’s Sokoto Field Office, called for collective actions toward achieving the desires results in all projects and programmes.
Juma stressed the importance of adequate budget allocations to key sectors comprising education, health, Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Nutrition, Child Protection and Social Policy.
He said meeting was to reflect of achievements, improvements, collaborations and success with view to strengthen challenges as well as fine-tune solutions on budget processes and implementations.
According to him, the targeted desire was to ensure value for money stressing that key indicators and performance needed to be reviewed in order to the achieve higher percentages.
He called for consideration of climate resilience policies, triangulated data and analysis as well as cross cutting in the budgeting processes.
The Newsmen reports that head programmes take turns to make presentations on the insights on their executed programmes, achievements, challenges, focus and way forwards.
The event witness discussions while stakeholders encouraged themselves on more collaborate in identifying state-specific priorities and aligning them with broader strategies.
