Local authority funds flows

Audit

Auditreports

• Financial relations between central government and local authorities

  Audit | 09-12-2009

  

  The Court of Audit has investigated the financing of policy where implementation has been decentralised by central government to the provinces and municipalities. Central government provides a variety of funds in the form of specific-purpose grants and general funding for the implementation of these policies. The kind of funding the government provides depends on the responsibility it wishes to bear for the policies that the provinces and municipalities implement. Our investigation was a follow-up to our Policymaking Freedom and Specific-Purpose Grants audit of 2006.

• Policymaking freedom and specific-purpose grants

  Audit | 23-03-2006

  Local authorities make inadequate use of specific-purpose grants allowing policymaking freedom.