SNNPR BoFED Data Transfer Over Dial-up System

Achievements

• Enables electronic submission of monthly accounts reports and annual budgets from the zonal and special wereda finance offices.
• Enables transmission of documents, software revisions and financial data between the zonal and special wereda offices and the Bureau of Finance and Economic Development at Awassa.
• Operational since May 2005

Location

• Bureau of Finance and Economic Development, Awassa
• 11 zonal and 3 special wereda offices in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region

Facts

Each zone and special wereda used to submit reports by hand which implied huge costs to transport staff to Awassa. Moreover any changes had to be redone and submitted again by hand. The system tightly integrates with the Budget, Disbursement and Accounts System (BDA) and the Budget Information System (BIS) that is functioning at all the sites.

This system would serve as a model for the all regions of the country including the Federal Government since it runs on a low-level data communication infrastructure and realizes a huge reduction in communication costs.

Description of Software Systems Delivered and Implemented

1. Transfer BIS data between Zone /Wereda and the regional bureau
   1. By any budget phase
   2. Data containing All Budget phases
2. Transfer BDA data between Zone /Wereda and the regional bureau
3. Consolidate transferred data
   1. BIS data transferred to a Master database of Zone/Wereda or Region.
   2. BDA data transferred to a Master database of Zone/Wereda or Region.
4. Provides the following data protection faculties
1. Backup
   This is a facility that helps the user to protect the existing data before any update is done.
2. Restore
   This is a facility that helps the user to recover data from a backup if the consolidation process failed by any means.
3. Zip

                Compresses and transmits files that the system is using currently.