The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room in collaboration with Youth Participation in Progressive Development Initiative (YPPDI) on Tuesday organized one-day capacity-building training on budget tracking for community-based organisations (CBOS) in Katsina State.

The training held in the state capital was coming barely one day after the State Government proposed a budget estimate of N454.3 billion for the year 2024.

According to the Executive Director of the Youth Participation in Progressive Development Initiative, Kamaluddeen Kabir, the workshop is part of a project supported by the FCDO in partnership with the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room.

He stressed that the training is aimed at creating awareness and building the capacity of community-based organisations towards budget processes and budget tracking during the execution of the 2024 budget year.

“At the end, we want to see an empowered society that can contribute towards the budget formulation and to help the government in implementation by creating space and ensuring that the budget has been implemented the way it is supposed to be implemented,” he noted.

On his part, the Program Officer of the Youth Participation in Progressive Development Initiative, Yahaya Sa’idu Lugga, maintained that the training is to make sure that the CBOS working in rural communities are equipped with knowledge of budget tracking vis-a-vis how they can participate actively in the budgetary process to ensure that their views, needs, and requirements are incorporated in the budget process.