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Activity 6: Budget game - a cross-ministry role play of a youth issue
Objective
The objectives are to:
  1. review what has been learned so far
  2. develop an understanding of cross-ministry issues
  3. Identify issues related to working and consulting with community groups and NGOs
  4. develop an understanding of different budgetary approaches to cross-ministry issues.

Time required: 90 minutes

Task
  • Join your Ministry team
  • Collect your Ministry's lolly allocation for the year
  • Read your Ministry's extra instructions (to be provided).
  • Rules must be obeyed. (to be provided)
  • Some of your lollies are for fixed commitments and cannot be reallocated
  • A proportion of your lollies can be reallocated by cutting or stopping existing projects (ie discretionary funds).
  • New projects must identify
    • Cost - how many lollies
    • Where the lollies have/will come from
  • Each lolly is worth 10,000 units of currency
Summary method
At the end of the exercise a "Budget Assessment Committee" will comment on each Ministry's performance - be prepared to outline your deliberations, challenges, decisions and actions. You may wish to record your deliberations, challenges, decisions and actions on butcher paper (to be provided).
© 2002 Youth and Gender Sensitive Public Expenditure Management in the Pacific

A University of South Australia project
with the Governments of Samoa and The Republic of The Marshall Islands
Funded by the Asian Development Bank