SEND Ghana, a civil society organisation, has raised concerns over some funding allocations in the 2016 budget presented by the Finance Minister last Friday, saying it did not have sufficient room for openness. “For instance, under the health sector budget, a total of approximately GH¢ 1.49billion, equivalent to 30.65 percent of the total health sector budget was set aside for ‘other government obligations,’ she stated, adding that similar unspecified items was found in the budgets of other Ministries, Departments and Agencies such as the Ministry of Roads and Highways, Education and District Assemblies Common Fund. Focusing on four key sectors of interest to SEND-Ghana: Education, Health, Agriculture and Anti-Corruption, she noted that, although their inputs had largely been addressed in the budget, there were still some outstanding ones. Under Health, Ms. Osei-Boateng noted that the budget had covered most of the proposals contained in its inputs into the 2016 budget, such as government’s commitment to spend 63 percent of the total health budget on primary health and to build 250 of the proposed 1600 CHPS Compounds across the ten regions in 2016. Also, the total budget for the health sector in the 2016 budget was 7.2 percent lower than that of 2015.