The purpose of every government all over the world is to improve the general well-being of the citizenry through
effective budget formulation and implementation. In compliance with Kano State Public Financial Management
Law, 2020, Kano Budget Working Group (KBWG) in collaboration with Ministry of Planning and Budget
organized town hall meeting on citizens inputs generation into Kano state 2025 budget. Specifically, the following
are the objectives of the workshop:
To create awareness among the participants on budget process and its importance
To catalyze citizens actions on budget monitoring and tracking
To collate citizens inputs in compliance with Kano State PFM Law 2020
Kano Budget Working Group (KBWG) as an umbrella of CSOs working specifically to improve citizen
participation in budget process in collaboration with Ministry of Planning and Budget (MoPB) organizes a town
hall consultative meeting with all relevant stakeholders to intimate them on the ongoing preparatory stage of 2025
budget process. The participants which were drawn from 44-LGAs under five clusters (Rano, Karaye, Gaya, Bichi
and Kano Central). Forty (40) participants (including traditional leaders, elderly group, youth, women, people with
special needs) were selected from the LGAs within each cluster and three representatives of Ministry of Planning
and Budget were in each cluster to ensure seamless conduct of the respective townhall meetings.
