Finance Minister introduces strict oversight for public investment projects

The directive mandates that local officials, including walis and local commissions, must now physically visit construction sites to document project progress with photos, moving beyond traditional administrative reports. The goal is to bridge the gap between allocated budgets and actual achievements in infrastructure projects such as schools, hospitals, roads, and housing. Each wilaya will establish a local commission for financial and material oversight, chaired by the Director of Programming and Budgetary Monitoring DPB, with the Budget Controller overseeing commitment authorizations and the Wilaya Treasurer managing payment credits.

These commissions will meet periodically to submit detailed reports, including dashboards on project progression rates, directly to the Minister. The new directive also includes a "purification" operation to review and reallocate funding from stalled, inefficient, or non-priority projects to growth-driving sectors, aligning with the Treasury's actual capacities. Furthermore, all collected data must be integrated into a dedicated digital application for public investment monitoring, enabling real-time decision-making by the central government.

The surveillance will focus on human development education, health, higher education, youth, culture, socio-economic developme