After the line Ministries submitted their BFPs, the Ministry of
Finance and Development Planning (MOFDP) was to hold
hearings so that Ministries could defend their proposals. The
MOFDP would then prepare final sectoral budget ceilings (Step
3 in Figure 1). These would be submitted to Cabinet for
approval, after which budget instructions would be distributed
(Step 4). With this information, the line Ministries could
prepare their rolling budgets with detailed expenditure estimates
for the first year and rougher estimates for future years