Understand the words first,then the figures.

Personnel Services — the payroll. It is what the region pays the people who work for it. Unlike the rest of the budget this part is not really a choice: the salaries are owed whether or not anything else goes ahead.

FY 2026 · ₱ 34.5B · 30%

Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses — the cost of running things day to day. There is an easy test: does it get used up within the year? Then it is MOOE.

FY 2026 · ₱ 43.7B · 38%

Money for something that is still there next year. If you can point at it after the budget year ends, it was capital outlay — a road, a building, a vehicle, a machine.

FY 2026 · ₱ 35.8B · 31%

Because every peso has to be one of them. There is no fourth box. The Act splits the money this way itself, in its Section 1 — it is not our reading of it. That is why you can add these three together, and why you cannot add the sectors on other pages.

The law that says what the region may spend, and on what, for one year. Without it no public money can legally move. A ministry cannot pay a salary or sign a contract unless a line in the GAAB covers it. A new one is passed every year and it ends when the year does. The one in force now is Bangsamoro Autonomy Act No. 85 — General Appropriations Act of the Bangsamoro, FY 2026.

Any law the Bangsamoro Parliament passes. They are numbered one after another, starting from the region’s first. The budget is not a special kind of law — it is just the BAA that happens to be the budget, in the same numbering as everything else. This year’s is BAA BAA No. 85 (FY 2026 GAAB).

The calendar year — 1 January to 31 December — so FY 2026 is just 2026. It matters because cash does not sit still. Whatever is left in an office’s account at 11.59pm on 30 June, and again on 31 December, reverts automatically to the Bangsamoro Treasury — which is why offices rush twice a year, not once. This site holds 7 years, FY 2020 to FY 2026: every budget the region has ever passed.

A condition written into the Act about one particular appropriation — what it may be spent on, what has to be reported, or what must happen first. The FY 2026 Act carries 207 of them.

Four stages. The ministries ask for what they want and the finance ministry decides how much they can have. Parliament then goes through it, changes what it wants, and passes it into law. After that the finance ministry releases the money and the ministries spend it. At the end, auditors check what was actually spent. The Process page walks through each stage.

Last year’s Act is reenacted and stays in force until the new one passes — but stripped back: salaries, obligations the law already requires, and essential running costs. Nothing new starts. A road in the new budget waits, a new position stays unfilled, and the region runs on last year’s shape at last year’s size however much the world has changed.

Mostly a yearly block grant from the national government. It is a formula, not a negotiation: the Organic Law sets it at 5% of national tax collections and it arrives automatically. That is the point of it — the region can plan ahead, and a change of politics in Manila does not change what comes in. The rest is the region’s cut of taxes collected here, its share of natural resources, and what it raises itself.

The Ministry of Finance, and Budget and Management — MFBM — puts the budget together before it goes to Parliament, and afterwards decides when each office may actually use its money. The Bangsamoro Treasury Office sits under it and is where the money is held and paid out from. Between them they control the timing of almost everything, which is why a line in the Act is not the same as money in hand.

No — and this is the most important thing on this page. An appropriation is permission to spend, granted before the year begins. What was actually spent, and what got built with it, is a separate record the region does not publish. Every figure on this workspace is what was promised, never what happened.

Money set aside with no office named to spend it. Every other line in the Act says who gets it — a ministry, an office, a commission. A special purpose fund only says what it is for. It sits there as one lump until something happens, and is then handed to whichever ministry has to deal with it. This year’s Act has 8 of them.

FY 2026 · ₱ 45.3B · 40%

Not by itself. Some money really cannot be assigned ahead of time, and a budget with no reserve would need a new law every time something went wrong. The cost is that you cannot follow it: while the money sits in a fund you can see the amount but not the plan, so there is no way to tell what will be built or where. The thing to watch is not whether these funds exist but how big a share of the budget they take.

Money the national government pays the region under the Bangsamoro Organic Law for rebuilding and development, over ten years, appropriated here year by year. It is not the block grant and not a share of taxes — it is a separate settlement for the rebuilding the region needed when it was formed.

FY 2026 · ₱ 5B

A reserve for things nobody could foresee when the Act was written, released by the Chief Minister as they come up. It is the widest of the funds, which is why its share is worth watching.

FY 2026 · ₱ 11.3B

A standby fund for relief and early recovery straight after a disaster, so help does not have to wait for a supplemental budget. A supplemental budget is another Act, and an Act takes weeks — which is the whole reason this fund exists.

FY 2026 · ₱ 1.7B

Because they are not places anyone works. Listed down one column beside the ministries they read as peers, which misleads — a ministry is an office with staff and a mandate, a fund is a sum waiting to be assigned. On the Composition page they have a strip of their own and are left out of the office table.

Because they overlap. A sector is our reading of what a line is about, and a program tagged both Health and Infrastructure gets counted under both. You can follow one sector across the years. You just cannot add the rows up.

The Act’s, down to the centavo, copied as printed. Every page number shown is the Act’s own. The files are on the Sources page, so you can check any figure against the page it came from.