Budget vs Manifesto Alignment Study

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Budget vs Manifesto Alignment Study

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• Identify 5 target African countries (prioritize current fiscal year relevance)
• Collect latest national budget documents (approved budget + appropriation act)
• Retrieve last election campaign manifestos for ruling parties
• Extract top 5 campaign promises per country
• Map each promise to a budget sector classification
• Extract allocation percentages for mapped sectors
• Retrieve actual expenditure reports (if available)
• Build comparative dataset (Promise vs Allocation vs Expenditure)
• Validate figures against official ministry or audit sources
• Upload cleaned dataset (CSV) to repository
• Submit 5–7 page analytical memo