Minister Aurelie ADAM SOULE ZOUMAROU appeared before the National Assembly on Monday 20 November 2023 to present the draft budget of the Ministry of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation for the 2024 financial year.
The appropriations allocated to the MND for the 2024 financial year amount to twenty-four billion three hundred and fifty-six million five hundred and forty-nine thousand (24,356,549,000) CFA francs, compared with thirty-one billion seventy-five million eighty-one thousand (31,075,081,000) CFA francs in 2023.
The 2024 budget breaks down as follows:
recurrent expenditure: 9,082,523,000 CFA francs;
capital expenditure: 15,274,026,000 CFA francs.
This budget will enable the Ministry of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation to implement priority actions in the digital and digitalisation sector on the one hand, and in the media sector on the other, relating to the continued digital transformation of Benin and to the modernisation and outreach of the media.
It is spread across the Ministry's three (03) programmes, namely:
the STEERING AND SUPPORT SERVICES Programme of the Ministry of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation, for an amount of 2,490,650,000 CFA francs;
the DIGITAL Programme, for an amount of 12,792,586,000 CFA francs;
the MEDIA Programme, for an amount of 9,073,313,000 CFA francs.
The 2024 draft budget of the Ministry of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation (MND) was prepared in accordance with the guidelines contained in budget framework letter No. 2092-c / MEF / DC / SGM / DGB / DPPSB of 4 September 2023, which set out the conditions for preparing the General State Budget for the 2024 financial year.