Assessment Of Budget Allocation And Utilization In Dire Dawa Administration The Case Of Dire Dawa Land Management Bureau

The overall objective of the study was to asses’ budget allocation and utilization in Dire Dawa Administration. The case of Dire Dawa land management bureau, The study tried to examine first the budget allocation and utilization of Dire Dawa land management bureau, second to identify the observed constraints in budget allocation and utilization, third to identify the recourse measure taken to minimize constraints in budget allocation and utilization, fourth to examine transparency in budget allocation and utilization of Dire Dawa land management bureau. For this study the researcher was used both primary and secondary data. But more focused on primary data in which more information could be obtained. The primary data was collected using 150 through which91 male and 59 female respondents respectively through self-administered questionnaires for the employees of the organization. In addition to this the researcher was also conducted interviews for 1 finance director and 2 budget expert of the planning section. Secondary data was collected from previous studies conducted in related topics, books, articles, strategic planning report of different universities on different websites, and document review of the organization. The researcher was used probability sampling(simple random) sampling technique. To achieve a sound conclusion descriptive method of research design with a mixed approach of qualitative and quantitative theme were applied. The researcher also employed descriptive method of data analysis. The data were entered in to SPSS software 24.0 version for analysis. Finally the major finding of the study revealed that there were over and underutilization of resource, lack of transparency in budget allocation and utilization, poor planning and expenditure control. Therefore in order to improve budget allocation and utilization process inDire Dawa land management bureau .the researcher recommended that,the organization should better to assign skilled man power on the right position, conducting training for the staff and adopt strong super vision and control of budget.