Website for "Where does Cameroon's Money Go?"

This contains the web frontend to the Cameroon budget site, a front-end to the OpenSpending platform built in cooperation with the World Bank.

Initialize the repository

To run the site for local development, follow these steps:

• Install Jekyll
• Make sure you're on the branch gh-pages
• Fetch the openspendingjs submodule with:
  • git submodule init
  • git submodule update

Generate the site

The site can be generated with this command from the repository root:

jekyll --server --auto 

This will run an HTTP server at port 4000 to serve the site.

Datasets

The data on the site comes from 2 datasets: cm-budgets and cm-pib.

cm-budgets

This contains the data for the Councils' Budget pages. The source CSV has the columns:

• Head-account
• Head-account description
• Sub-account
• Sub-account description
• Year
• Reporting type
  • ACTUAL
  • BUDGET
• Amount
• Revenue/Expenditure
  • REVENUE
  • EXPENDITURE
• Recurrent/Investment
  • RECURRENT
  • INVESTMENT
• Expense type
• Region
  • Extrême-Nord
  • Nord
  • Adamaoua
  • Est
  • Sud
  • Centre
  • Ouest
  • Nord-Ouest
  • Sud-Ouest
  • Littoral
• Council
• Division type
  • COUNCIL
  • REGION

The sub-bullet points describe the valid values for that specific column.