The Ministry of Finance says it has started translating national budget documents into local languages in order to provide summarized and simplified contents of the budgets to rural citizens to enable them take part in tracking implementation of the fiscal plans. CFSC director, James Ngahy: We will be involving more other relevant stakeholders Assistant Budget Director, Lawrence Ngwalangwa, said government has termed the translated, surmarized and simplified booklets as the “citizens budget”. Ngwalangwa disclosed this at Mponela in Dowa District during an interface meeting with media practitioners. The meeting had been organized by faith based Centre for Social Concern (CFSC) through its project dubbed “Strengthening the Capacity of Citizens to Demand Transparency and Accountability in Public Finance Management for Reduced Poverty and Inequality.