Budget Advocacy for the water and sanitation sector in Nepal

A primer for Civil Society Organisation

-Water Aid, Nepal

This publication, a primer on budget, aims to equip civil society advocates, who help the poor and the marginalised to demand both rights of and access to water and sanitation, with skills in understanding the underlying principles, processes and the scope of budgeting from formulation to the auditing phase. To that end, it is produced as a compendium of practical tools that teach how to do a basic budget analysis, how to interpret the numbers, and when and how to be engaged in the four phases of the budget cycle. All these skills are relevant for civil society advocates who want the duty bearers in the government to succeed in meeting its own declaration to meet the MDG goals of providing water and sanitation by 2015, and the Nepalspecific universal access goal to all by 2017.