P. O. Box 1074, Gulu Uganda | Tel: +256 392138904 | Email: amurudlg@gmail.com
Finance
Headed by the District Chief Finance Officer; Mr. Oweka Simon
Strategic Objectives
To achieve the mission, the finance department focus on the following objectives
- Coordinate of the preparation of council budget(s). To ensure that all resources are are realised and expended according to the approved work plans
- Collect ion of local revenue from all approved sources to improve service delivery
- Revenue mobilization to increase the volume of revenue without increasing costs of collection
- Design and put in place best practices geared towards increased local revenue mobilization and accountability for all resources
- Put in place new better ways in revenue collection and administration procedures
- To evolve possible reviews in legal, administrative and policy framework for revenue enhancement to increase revenue collection
- Disseminating educative information geared towards improvement in revenue mobilization
- Cash flow management within the entire District
- Budget implementation and control to strengthen commitment control of resources
- Ensuring that periodic financial reports are prepared and submitted to the relevant sectors and line ministries
- Safe guarding shall safe guard District Assets and financial records
Priorities of the Finance Department
- To improve revenue collection at a minimal cost the department needs to procure a double cabin pick up for revenue mobilisation
- Re-introduce Revenue Task Force & Enforcement team
- Procure furniture for the head of finance’s office
- Train more staff on computer practices
- Procure better filling shelves for safe and proper data storage
- Implement the IFMIS system
- Improve accountability by display of releases
- Increase local revenue collection by contracting revenue collections from property rates, markets, taxi parks among others
- Introduce New areas and increase revenue collection
- Better book keeping by increased mentoring of accounts staff
Key Activities