Financial Risk:
Moderate
Score:
58/100
Asset Disposals
Q24
83/100
How effective are controls over the disposal of assets, and is information on these disposals, and the proceeds of their sale, transparent?
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All national assets in Botswana, including that of the Defence, are disposed of in terms of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board [Cap…
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The disposal of assets is regulated by the PPADB and the Regulations. The PPADB Act is founded upon transparency, accountability and fairness. The PPADB…
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In the spirit of transparency, Section 99 of the PPADB Act provides inter alia that: (1) A procuring and disposing entity shall maintain records…
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Q25
92/100
Is independent and transparent scrutiny of asset disposals conducted by defence establishments, and are the reports of such scrutiny publicly available?
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As highlighted above, the disposal of assets is not left to the discretion of the security sectors but it is conducted by the PPADB…
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Disposals of assets are not conducted by defence establishments [1]. It follows that the defence establishments are not published by the defence but by…
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The Auditor General of Botswana is mandated to undertake an annual performance audit of the Board, its Committees, sub-Committees and the Procuring and Disposing…
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Secret Budgets
Q26
0/100
What percentage of defence and security expenditure in the budget year is dedicated to spending on secret items relating to national security and the intelligence services?
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For the 2020/2021 Recurrent Budget, the Ministry of Defence, Justice and Security received P8.56 billion (approximately USD 800 million) [1]. Of this amount, the…
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Q27
25/100
Is the legislature (or the appropriate legislative committee or members of the legislature) given full information for the budget year on the spending of all secret items relating to national security and military intelligence?
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The Legislative Committee responsible for the National Security (Directorate of Intelligence Security Services) is provided with a budget but the finer details are not…
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Q28
50/100
Are audit reports of the annual accounts of the security sector (the military and intelligence services) subject to parliamentary debate?
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The Bostwana Auditor General does not produce exclusive audit reports on the DISS. The Annual Reports only refer to the umbrella ministry, the Ministry…
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The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs, Justice, Defence and Security does request for documentation and testimony from the Security Services Department [1]. In…
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Q29
100/100
In law, are off-budget military expenditures permitted, and if so, are they exceptional occurrences that are well-controlled? In practice, are there any off-budget military expenditures? If so, does evidence suggest this involves illicit economic activity?
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In terms of the Finance and Audit Act [Chap 54:01] Off-Budget expenditure is prohibited by law [1]. In terms of section 14 of the…
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There is no record or evidence of any Off-Budget expenditure. As such, this indicator is scored ‘Not Applicable’. As discussed above, the Finance Act…
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As discussed in 29A and 29B above, there is no record or evidence of any Off-Budget expenditure. This is consistent with the outlawing of…
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Q30
25/100
Are mechanisms for accessing information from the defence sector effective?
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The right of access to information held by the State as provided for under section 12 (1) of the Constitution [1]. According to Balule…
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This indicator is not assigned a score in the GDI. The classification of information in Botswana is regulated in terms of the Intelligence and…
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The public has access to general information and non-sensitive information which may not necessarily be classified. However, access to sensitive and classified information that…
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Q31
100/100
Do national defence and security institutions have beneficial ownership of commercial businesses? If so, how transparent are details of the operations and finances of such businesses?
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Q32
100/100
Are military-owned businesses subject to transparent independent scrutiny at a recognised international standard?
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Q33
NEI/100
Is there evidence of unauthorised private enterprise by military or other defence ministry employees? If so, what is the government’s reaction to such enterprise?
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There is no express provision in the law that either permits or prohibits private enterprise by military and defence personnel [1]. However, Article 147…
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There is no evidence of unauthorised private enterprise by the military, during the research period [1,2]. Howver, this does not mean that such activities…
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Actual Military Spending
Q77
0/100
Is comprehensive data on actual spending on defence published during the budget year?
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Reports of the actual defence spending are not published. What is available are budget figures pronouncements by the Minsitry of Finance [1], and in…
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Given that no information on actual spending is made public, this indicator is scored ‘Not Applicable’. Only aggrgated data on defence spending is published…
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Given that no information on actual spending is made public, this indicator is scored ‘Not Applicable’.
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Given that no information on actual spending is made public, this indicator is scored ‘Not Applicable’.
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