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CHRA to conduct participatory municipal budget training workshop
Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA)
September 17, 2008

The Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) will be conducting the Harare municipal budget training workshop from Friday the 19th to Sunday the 21st of September 2008 at the Kadoma Ranch Hotel. Participants to the workshop include the Honorable Mayor, Deputy Mayor, City council committee chairpersons, City Treasurer, the city Finance committee, Town Clerk, Chamber Secretary, Town Chief Accountant, Town budget officer, the Public Relations Officer, CHRA ward leaders, representatives of civic society organizations and representatives of the corporate world. The workshop seeks to provide the city council, residents, civic society and the business community with a common platform to explore as well as create opportunities for public participation in the 2009 Harare city council budget formulation, implementation and management.

This workshop is part of the capacity building partnership between the city council and CHRA, established through the inaugural Harare Municipal Conference held on the 29th of August 2008. Through the Harare municipal budget workshop, CHRA seeks to develop and enhance the councilors' knowledge about the municipal budget formulation, interpretation, review, implementation and management process. The workshop also strives to explore and create systems and structures that allow as well as promote a budget formulation and implementation process in which the interests of all the residents are equally addressed. CHRA firmly believes that the municipal budget formulation and implementation must be an all inclusive process that involves the residents, the councilors, civic society and the business community. It is this philosophy that inspires CHRA to come up with such initiatives and indeed guided the selection of participants to this workshop. After this workshop, the Association intends to conduct a series of Municipal Budget Performance Analysis workshops. These will be platforms upon which the stakeholders to the Harare city council budget will together review the level of consultation and participation of the Budget formulation process, as well as evaluate the extent to which the process would have managed to address the stakeholders' needs. CHRA remains creative with regards to coming up with programs that promote and protect public participation in all local Government processes in Harare and Zimbabwe.

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