Table 1: National ID and CRVS budgets and expenditures, FY 2009/10 - FY 2019/20
Relevant sub-categories
(UGX in billions)
Relevant line item(s)
within line item
National ID
Vote 009: Ministry of Internal Affairs Policy, planning, and support
Machinery and equipment
Vote 009: Ministry of Internal Affairs Citizenship and immigration services NSIS Project
Vote 120: NCIC
Citizenship and immigration services NSIS Project
Vote 309: NIRA
All except CRVS services
All
Total National ID amounts
1
USD millions, est.
CRVS
Vote 119: URSB
Vote 119: URSB
Vote 309: NIRA
Total CRVS amounts
USD millions, est. 1
CRVS as a % of National ID
Directorate of Civil Registration
Civil Registration Services
Civil Registration Services
Comparative expenditures
GoU expenditures excluding donor funds (central + local)3
Central government3
Local governments3
Health (central + local)3
Vote 014: Ministry of Health3
Vote 018: MoGLSD3
Social Protection for Vulnerable Groups3
Additional expenditures funded by donors
Ministry of Health (including donors)
All
All
All
Relevant financial years
for line item
Total: FY 2009/10 - 2019/20
Budget
Actual
Actual as %
of budget
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12 - 2016/17
2017/18 - 2019/20
0.6
85.8
451.4
190.0
727.7
$242.1
27.6
56.2
518.4
143.2
745.4
$260.3
4836.8%
65.5%
114.9%
75.4%
102.4%
2010/11 - 2016/172
2017/18 - 2019/20
2017/18 - 2019/20
2.6
3.4
9.1
15.1
$4.3
2.1%
2.9
3.2
7.1
13.3
$3.9
1.8%
114.8%
94.5%
77.5%
87.7%
116,747.9
84,254.6
32,493.3
9,002.5
890.6
920.2
497.4
48,540.8
6,802.0
118,695.9
93,864.0
24,884.5
9,033.3
881.1
770.1
356.1
20,520.2
4,102.9
101.7%
111.4%
76.6%
100.3%
98.9%
83.7%
71.6%
42.3%
60.3%
Sources for all UGX amounts: MoFPED Annual Budget Performance Reports for Financial Year 2009/10 - Financial Year 2019/20.
(1) Estimates based on UGX/USD daily spot exchange rates, averaged within each calendar year. Average annual exchange rates are applied to annual expenditures, resulted in an annual
weighted-average exchange rate. Because annual budgets and expenditures vary, weighted average exchange rates applied to budgeted amounts and expenditures are different. The exchange
rate for FY 2009/10 is an estimate, as daily historical exchange rates are not available for all dates during that financial year.
Source for exchange rate data: https://www.currency-converter.org.uk/currency-rates/historical/table/USD-UGX.html.
(2) There are no identifiable budget allocations for CRVS services in the FY 2009/10 Annual Budget Performance Report.
(3) Expenditures exclude all contributions from international donors, interest payments, arrears, taxes, and non-tax revenue retained and spent by budgeted "votes."
only 356.1 billion UGX over this period, or 47.7% of expenditures on national ID systems.
The 745.4 billion UGX of expenditures on national ID systems captured in Table
1 are underinclusive, and thus represent a lower bound for the Government of Uganda’s
actual expenditures on national ID systems, since some expenditures documented
elsewhere are missing from—or buried in other line items within—the MOFPED National
Budget Performance Reports. According to the NSIS Procurement Report of 2012, the MIA
“bypassed” the Public Procurement and Disposal Authority when it negotiated the March
2010 contract with Mühlbauer for 181 billion UGX (€ 64 EUR million), and made an initial
payment of €23 EUR million to Mühlbauer shortly after the contract was signed in spring
2010.5 However, only 27.6 billion UGX (approximately €11 EUR million based on March
2010 exchange rates) of expenditures on the national ID project are identifiable in the FY
2009/10 National Budget Performance Report.6 Even this (incomplete) 27.6 billion UGX
expenditure is difficult to locate within the FY 2009/10 report; the report never mentions
the Mühlbauer contract, much less the up-front payment of € 23 EUR million made to
Mühlbauer. Additionally, the NSIS Procurement Report of 2012 notes that, as of December
31, 2011, the Government of Uganda had paid Mühlbauer more 150 billion UGX under the
procurement contract.7 By contrast, the total expenditures on national ID systems through
June 30, 2012 that are captured in the MOFPED National Budget Performance Report line
items listed in Table 1 are 130.8 billion UGX.
While it is possible that MOFPED amortized certain payments to Mühlbauer over
several financial years, there are no notes in the National Budget Performance Reports
suggesting this is the case. In fact, the National Budget Performance Reports never
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