Social audit key to output based development

Government officials expressed their commitment to implement social auditing system in local bodies as well as INGOs from next fiscal year.
The working procedure of social audit system has been prepared," said joint secretary at Ministry of Local Development Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya speaking at an interaction on social auditing system jointly organised by Action Aid Nepal and Society of economic Journalists-Nepal in the Valley.
"Existing laws and mandatory provisions for public accounting and social auditing will help people get information of the projects and their expenditures apart from the output," he said, adding that the ministry is preparing to apply the tool at local bodies like VDCs and DDDCs.
"We are committed to implementing it at least in DDCs from the next fiscal year" he said.
Similarly, member-secretary at the Social Welfare Council Dr Chhewang N Lama (Sherpa) said that they are monitoring whether INGOs and NGOs were implementing the procedure or not.
Under the provision, organisations will have to allocate 80 per cent of their total expenses for programmes and remaining 20 per cent for administrative costs. "From the next fiscal year, we will monitor social auditing during the evaluation process," he said, adding that the council has also made it mandatory for INGOs to apply the social auditing system.