Open Knowledge

Government Spending 10% open

Tanzania, United ...


What data is expected?

Records of actual (past) national government spending at a detailed transactional level; A database of contracts awarded or similar will not considered sufficient. This data category refers to detailed ongoing data on actual expenditure. Data submitted in this category should meet the following minimum criteria:

  • Individual record of transactions.
  • Date of the transactions
  • Government office which had the transaction
  • Name of vendor
  • amount of the transaction
  • Update on a monthly basis

What data is available

  •   Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
  •   Is the data available for free? No
  •   Is the data machine readable? No (n/a)
  •   Available in bulk? No
  •   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? No
  •   Publicly available? No
  •   Is data in digital form? Yes
  •   Is the data available online? No (No URL given)
  •   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

The Ministry of Finance publishes very detailed and thorough reports about planned and actual spending four times a year at: http://www.mof.go.tz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24:budget-execution-reports&catid=67:budget-execution-reports&Itemid=38F

These reports include tables of aggregated spending data but not transactional data. However this indicates that the data exists and is in digital format.

Reviewer comments

Submission fixed

Contributors

Reviewers

  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson

Submitters

  • Joachim Mangilima