The Prime Minister’s advisor: The new budget makes public funds a tool for measuring feasibility and impact.
The Prime Minister’s advisor: The new budget makes public funds a tool for measuring feasibility and impact.
8-30-2026
The Prime Minister’s advisor, Mazhar Muhammad Saleh, confirmed on Sunday that the program budget represents a shift from financing spending to financing results. He explained that the new budget makes public money a tool for measuring feasibility and impact. Saleh told the official agency, “The program budget essentially means a shift from financing spending to financing results. This shift reflects the essence of the program and performance budget, which seeks to make public money a tool for measuring feasibility, not just a number in spending tables.”
He also explained that “adopting this budget means that ministries and other official institutions are required to provide accurate data on their employees and expenses, because the government needs to know the actual cost of each program and activity, and link it to goals and results,” indicating that “the issue is no longer just an automatic increase in the allocations of ministries, but rather an assessment of the importance of the programs and their ability to achieve a tangible impact on the lives of citizens and the economy.”
He added that “the distribution of spending among economic sectors should be based on the priorities of society itself and the expected social impact, not on the continuation of old financial habits,” noting that “spending becomes a political and social act par excellence, because it determines which sectors deserve to be supported and which should be reconsidered.”
Saleh also pointed out that “linking expenditures to results is the heart of financial reform. If the results are weak, it does not mean cutting funding directly, but rather diagnosing the cause, whether it is a lack of resources, weak implementation, poor management, or a flaw in the design of the objectives.” He explained, “Then allocations can be modified, resources redirected, or even programs merged and stopped if they prove to be ineffective.”
He emphasized that “in this sense, the budget becomes a continuous dynamic process, not just covering expenses,” explaining that it is “a shift from a culture of quantity to a culture of quality, and from a mentality of spending as an end to a mentality of results as a meaning.”
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