{"id":6558,"date":"2017-08-14T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T11:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=6558"},"modified":"2017-08-14T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T11:38:07","slug":"burundis-ombudsman-office-suffers-from-suspension-of-international-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundis-ombudsman-office-suffers-from-suspension-of-international-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi\u2019s Ombudsman office  suffers from suspension of international aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ombudsman office faces problems due to the suspension of funding from international organisation. This handicaps some scheduled activities of the institution, said the ombudsman during his biannual report presented to MPs on August 11th, 2017.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6556\" style=\"width: 376px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6556\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-6556\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bella-site.jpg\" alt=\"Edouard Nduwimana, Burundi Ombudsman: \u201cWe owe more than BIF 300 million to some of our partner institutions\u201d\" width=\"366\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bella-site.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bella-site-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bella-site-600x451.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edouard Nduwimana, Burundi Ombudsman: \u201cWe owe more than BIF 300 million to some of our partner institutions\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The main problem that the institution faces today is a lack of money. The Ombudsman says this is made much worse by the suspension of international cooperation. \u201cThe implementation of the missions of the northern branch is facing budgetary challenges because the Swiss government, which financed it, suspended its cooperation.\u201d This interruption has also caused other problems such as debt. \u201cWe owe more than 300 million to institutions we partner with,\u201d said Edouard Nduwimana, the national ombudsman.<\/p>\n<p>Nduwimana also said that many projects cannot be executed because of a lack of finances. \u201cThe insufficient budget is the main handicap that we encounter in our every day\u2019s activities. Our institution does not have enough resources to achieve its missions. When it needs to expand its work across the whole country, this becomes quite impossible due to the insufficient financial resources. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says they have a plan to work across the whole country and appeals to the MPs to consider the financial problem in the next annual budget plan \u201cYou have to consider this challenge. For example in 2011, the ombudsman association\u2019s budget was equivalent to more than BF 1.3 billion but now only BF 800 million is allocated to the institution. You see that there is a big difference,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ombudsman office exists in Burundi since 2010 and it works in prevention, mediation and solving conficts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ombudsman office faces problems due to the suspension of funding from international organisation. This handicaps some scheduled activities of the institution, said the ombudsman during his biannual report presented to MPs on August 11th, 2017. The main problem that the institution faces today is a lack of money. The Ombudsman says this is made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[47,467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6559,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558\/revisions\/6559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}