Budgeting for the Military Sector in Africa the Processes and Mechanisms of Control
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Omitoog.qxd 19/1/06 10:30 am Page 1 Wuyi Omitoogun (Nigeria) is a This book describes and analyses the Researcher with the SIPRI Military budgetary processes for military Expenditure and Arms Production Project expenditure in eight African countries— and is the co-coordinator of the Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, SIPRI/African Security Dialogue and Recent and forthcoming SIPRI books from Oxford University Press AND HUTCHFUL OMITOOGUN Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Research project on Military Budgetary South Africa—spanning the continent’s Processes in Africa. He previously worked SIPRI Yearbook 2005: Armaments, Disarmament and International sub-regions. While the military sector in Security BUDGETING FOR at the Centre for Trans-Saharan Studies, many African states is believed to be University of Maiduguri, and Obafemi favoured in terms of resource allocation Awolowo University, both in Nigeria. His Europe and Iran: Perspectives on Non-proliferation and degree of political autonomy, it is not Edited by Shannon N. Kile publications include ‘Arms control and THE MILITARY subject to the same rules and procedures SIPRI Research Report no. 21 conflict in Africa’ in Arms Control and paperback and hardback as other sectors. In this comprehensive Disarmament: A New Conceptual study, researchers from the region Approach (UN Department for Technology and Security in the 21st Century: A Demand-Side SECTOR IN AFRICA address questions on the oversight and Disarmament Affairs, 2000) and Military Perspective control of the military budgetary process, Expenditure Data in Africa: A Survey of Amitav Mallik SECTOR IN AFRICA BUDGETING FOR THE MILITARY such as the roles of the finance and Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, SIPRI Research Report no. 20 THE PROCESSES AND defence ministries, budget offices, audit Nigeria and Uganda, SIPRI Research paperback and hardback departments and external actors; the Report no. 17 (OUP, 2003). He has extent of compliance with standard public contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since Reducing Threats at the Source: A European Perspective on MECHANISMS OF expenditure management procedures; and 2000. Cooperative Threat Reduction how well official military expenditure Ian Anthony figures reflect the true economic SIPRI Research Report no. 19 CONTROL Eboe Hutchful (Ghana) is Professor in paperback and hardback resources devoted to military activities in Africana Studies at Wayne State these countries. University, Detroit, Michigan, and Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in the New Europe The book is based on the assumption Executive Director of African Security Zdzislaw Lachowski that, while the military sector’s activities Dialogue and Research (ASDR), Accra, SIPRI Research Report no. 18 require some confidentiality, they should Ghana, and is the co-coordinator of the paperback and hardback be subject to the same standard SIPRI/ASDR project on Military Budgetary procedures and rules followed by other Processes in Africa. He has taught at Business and Security: Public–Private Sector Relationships in a state sectors. Thus, the framework for the several other universities in Africa and New Security Environment EDITED BY country studies is provided by a model for North America, including the University of Edited by Alyson J. K. Bailes and Isabel Frommelt WUYI OMITOOGUN AND good practice in budgeting for the military Toronto, the University of Port Harcourt sector that focuses on principles of public Military Expenditure Data in Africa: A Survey of Cameroon, EBOE HUTCHFUL and the University of Ghana. His research Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda expenditure management and defence has been primarily in the areas of Wuyi Omitoogun planning. militarism and security sector reform and SIPRI Research Report no. 17 The individual studies are tied together the political economy of adjustment, areas paperback and hardback by a synthesis chapter, which provides a in which he has published extensively. He comparative analysis of the studies, is the author and co-editor of several Transparency in Nuclear Warheads and Materials: The Political and identifies the level and pattern of books and a large number of journal Technical Dimensions adherence of the eight countries to the articles, including The Military and Edited by Nicholas Zarimpas model for good practice in military Militarism in Africa (CODESRIA, 1998, budgeting and provides explanations for co-edited with Abdoulaye Bathily), Executive Policing: Enforcing the Law in Peace Operations the different degrees of adherence Edited by Renata Dwan Ghana’s Adjustment Experience: The displayed by the countries. Based on SIPRI Research Report no. 16 Paradox of Reform (James Currey, 2002) paperback and hardback these explanations, the book makes and a forthcoming volume,Governing ISBN 0-19-926266-7 concrete recommendations to the Security Establishments in Africa (with governments of African countries on how Anicia Lala). He is current Chair of the 1 to improve their military budgetary African Security Sector Network. processes and to the international 9 780199 262663 community on how to support their efforts. OXFORD Omitoog.qxd 19/1/06 10:30 am Page 1 Wuyi Omitoogun (Nigeria) is a This book describes and analyses the Researcher with the SIPRI Military budgetary processes for military Expenditure and Arms Production Project expenditure in eight African countries— and is the co-coordinator of the Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, SIPRI/African Security Dialogue and Recent and forthcoming SIPRI books from Oxford University Press AND HUTCHFUL OMITOOGUN Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Research project on Military Budgetary South Africa—spanning the continent’s Processes in Africa. He previously worked SIPRI Yearbook 2005: Armaments, Disarmament and International sub-regions. While the military sector in Security BUDGETING FOR at the Centre for Trans-Saharan Studies, many African states is believed to be University of Maiduguri, and Obafemi favoured in terms of resource allocation Awolowo University, both in Nigeria. His Europe and Iran: Perspectives on Non-proliferation and degree of political autonomy, it is not Edited by Shannon N. Kile publications include ‘Arms control and THE MILITARY subject to the same rules and procedures SIPRI Research Report no. 21 conflict in Africa’ in Arms Control and paperback and hardback as other sectors. In this comprehensive Disarmament: A New Conceptual study, researchers from the region Approach (UN Department for Technology and Security in the 21st Century: A Demand-Side SECTOR IN AFRICA address questions on the oversight and Disarmament Affairs, 2000) and Military Perspective control of the military budgetary process, Expenditure Data in Africa: A Survey of Amitav Mallik SECTOR IN AFRICA BUDGETING FOR THE MILITARY such as the roles of the finance and Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, SIPRI Research Report no. 20 THE PROCESSES AND defence ministries, budget offices, audit Nigeria and Uganda, SIPRI Research paperback and hardback departments and external actors; the Report no. 17 (OUP, 2003). He has extent of compliance with standard public contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since Reducing Threats at the Source: A European Perspective on MECHANISMS OF expenditure management procedures; and 2000. Cooperative Threat Reduction how well official military expenditure Ian Anthony figures reflect the true economic SIPRI Research Report no. 19 CONTROL Eboe Hutchful (Ghana) is Professor in paperback and hardback resources devoted to military activities in Africana Studies at Wayne State these countries. University, Detroit, Michigan, and Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in the New Europe The book is based on the assumption Executive Director of African Security Zdzislaw Lachowski that, while the military sector’s activities Dialogue and Research (ASDR), Accra, SIPRI Research Report no. 18 require some confidentiality, they should Ghana, and is the co-coordinator of the paperback and hardback be subject to the same standard SIPRI/ASDR project on Military Budgetary procedures and rules followed by other Processes in Africa. He has taught at Business and Security: Public–Private Sector Relationships in a state sectors. Thus, the framework for the several other universities in Africa and New Security Environment EDITED BY country studies is provided by a model for North America, including the University of Edited by Alyson J. K. Bailes and Isabel Frommelt WUYI OMITOOGUN AND good practice in budgeting for the military Toronto, the University of Port Harcourt sector that focuses on principles of public Military Expenditure Data in Africa: A Survey of Cameroon, EBOE HUTCHFUL and the University of Ghana. His research Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda expenditure management and defence has been primarily in the areas of Wuyi Omitoogun planning. militarism and security sector reform and SIPRI Research Report no. 17 The individual studies are tied together the political economy of adjustment, areas paperback and hardback by a synthesis chapter, which provides a in which he has published extensively. He comparative analysis of the studies, is the author and co-editor of several Transparency in Nuclear Warheads and Materials: The Political and identifies the level and pattern of books and a large number of journal Technical Dimensions adherence of the eight countries to the articles, including The Military and Edited by Nicholas Zarimpas model for good practice in military Militarism in Africa (CODESRIA, 1998, budgeting and