The Role of Medium Term Expenditure Framework on the Service Delivery of Housing and Water Services: The Case of Addis Ababa City

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2014-06

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Addis Ababa University

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In the developing world the level of development remained unsatisfactory partly due to insujjicient access to financial resources, poor utilization and manage men t of the resources in the public sector. To contribute its part the general objective of this study is to examine The role o{ Medium Term Expendilure Framework ollihe semice de/i/Jery a/" housi".fj and w(ller seruices: The Case o{ Addis Ababa City. The thesis is designed to follow descriptive and exploratory type of research method. Data have been collecteel from both primary and secondary sources in order to generate relevant and valid resull. Accordingly both structured and semi-structured questionnaires and inlerviews were implemenled to access primary data. The st.atistical data's indicate thai the city because of the implementation of MTEF observed enhancement in its fiscal pe'formance, brought reprioritization in budget allocation and allocated more funds for water, and houses capitals expenditu re. On the other hand, the city with the adaptation of MTEF could not maintain fiscal stability anel a substantial amount of budgets are commonly transfelTeel from their inteneleel purposes during the budget year after budget approval. Besides, the city did nol put into place a system for monitoring and evaluating the pelformance of MTEF and lacks two major steps in preparing the MTEF. which are critical in providing autonom.ous anel predictability 10 sector bureaus anel sub ciUes. All these facts are to som.e extent in contradiction with what was actually perceived by city mwwgements as a result only partially the city MTEF is delivering its perceived roles and benefits.

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