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One of the most important activities that is carried out by governments and public sector institutions is budgeting. It is through budgeting that the scarce resources of a country are allocated to every sector of an economy. The claim by the British economist Lionel Robbins in 1932 – “human wants are unlimited but the means to satisfy them are limited relatively”- calls for the use of efficient management tools that will ensure the optimal use of the limited resources. One of the tools that government can use for this purpose is the budget. Governments therefore prepare budgets to drive the overall development objectives of their economies (Lawyer & Nigeria, 2013). Public sector budgeting is, therefore, very important for national development and has been used by governments in developing countries, including Ghana, as the major instrument for the mobilization of the needed resources to fund development project and programmes.

SUMMARY

FADeC-Agriculture is a mechanism for allocating resources to Benin’s communes, set up in 2015 and identified in 2019 as the main tool for financing the Decentralization and Deconcentration Plan (P2D) for the agricultural sector. Despite central government efforts to make it operational, it suffers from a number of dysfunctions that undermine its performance. All in all, the central administration must take the appropriate measures to enable this fund to play its role to the full.