Targeted use of budgetary funds, as well as openness and transparency of all stages of this process are important for preventing corruption.

Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan of June 16, 2021 No. DP-6247 pays special attention to this aspect and provides for the mandatory disclosure of information on revenues and expenditures of local budgets formed at the end of each quarter, as well as information regarding the revenue surpluses, generated by higher-than-anticipated revenues and purpose of their spending.

This is important because it serves to prevent theft of budget funds, establish effective public control and reduce various corruption risks.

The Anti-Corruption Agency constantly monitors the implementation of this task, in particular, the timely implementation of this task by local executive authorities.

Recently, the Agency specialists monitored the disclosure by local executive authorities of information on the revenue surpluses, generated by higher-than-anticipated revenues and the purpose of their spending for the first quarter of 2022.

The study showed that the official websites of the hokimiyats (administrations) of Jizzakh, Surkhandarya, Sirdarya, Ferghana and Tashkent regions published the above information in a timely manner, and the hokimiyats of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Kashkadarya, Navoi, Samarkand, Namangan and Khorezm regions published information partially.

The Andijan regional administration made the publication of the information on its official website in the first quarter of 2021. The Tashkent city administration website has no such information at all.

According to the information published by the Tashkent regional administration, free balances of budget funds at the beginning of 2022, and revenue surpluses, generated by higher-than-anticipated revenues for the first quarter of this year, amounted to 231.3 billion soums. According to the order of the head of the region, they are distributed as follows:

• 82.3 billion soums for programs of socio-economic development of the region;
• 31.9 billion soums to centralized funds;
• 27.3 billion soums to the Civil Initiative Fund;
• 16.9 billion soums for the Prosperous Village and Prosperous Community programs;
• 16.0 billion soums to strengthen the logistical base of budgetary organizations;
• 9.3 billion soums for the improvement of territories;
• 5.4 billion soums for cultural and sports events, festivals, public and national holidays;
• 11.8 billion soums for other expenses.

In Jizzakh Region, over the past three months of this year, a total of 91.0 billion soums of free balances of budget funds have been formed in the local budget, which are aimed at the following purposes:

• 11.5 billion soums for programs of socio-economic development of territories, as well as for the construction, repair and equipping of social facilities;
• 8.5 billion soums to ensure the fulfillment of the tasks assigned to the military-administrative sector;
• 5.7 billion soums to the Civil Initiative Fund;
• 2.8 billion soums to the Youth Book Fund;
• 2.4 billion soums for expenses related to national holidays, sports and cultural events;
• 1.9 billion soums to the Women’s Book Fund;
• 1.9 billion soums to the Generosity and Support Fund;
• billion soums for the Prosperous Village and Prosperous Community programs.

Moreover, during the reporting period, 63.8 billion soums were allocated from additional sources for the socio-economic development of the region’s territories, improving the welfare of the population, strengthening the logistical base of social facilities, material support for the population in need of social protection.

The Anti-Corruption Agency submitted warnings to eight local executive authorities on the elimination of errors and shortcomings identified as a result of monitoring, and further compliance with the requirements of the legislation on openness.

In addition, relevant information on identified cases has been submitted to the Administration of the President and the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

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