February: Adding a new national budget

How to add a new national budget when it is tabled in February in advance of a new financial year

Steps

When the budget speech starts, and again when the data is available on vulekamali, the homepage notices need to be updated.

The following is required to add a new national budget to vulekamali

Immediately upload key budget documents

Structured data for updated charts and department pages

  1. The ENE Vote e-publications and accompanying per-vote Excel files must be added to the CKAN to show up on department pages

  2. The Budget vs Actual National Expenditure structured fiscal dataset must be updated with the new Main Appropriation data from the ENE

Publish the new financial year

When all the above is completed, the new financial year can be marked as published. This will result in the homepage and department pages showing data using the newly-updated data.

Dataset checklist

These are all the datasets needed to upload a new national budget to vulekamali and where to source them.

Dataset (link is example structured for vulekamali)

Source (link is source format)

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