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Morocco l Transparency and open budget, the true stakes in Morocco’s governance reform
10 April 2013 | access-to-info, accountability, budget, civil society, open budgetOpening up the national budget to public scrutiny is one step in the long and bumpy road to making information widely available and accessible. Why should this matter to the average person? It is...
Blogpost: What citizens want to know about aid dollars
10 July 2012 | budget, civ engagement, infomediaries, participatory mechanisms, transparencyEvaluations of the impact of donor aid is a basic pillar of accountability for the use of development aid. But recent research by IPPR and ODI suggests that at least in the United Kingdom voters...
Monitoring Government to Improve Its Performance: Peruvian Civil Society and Decentralization
27 April 2012 | budget, citizen monitoring, civ society, decentralisation, latin america, local governance, nat initiative, peruDecentralization is often seen as a necessary reform to advance democracy in a country. In Peru, decentralization involved the transfer of functions, skills, and decision-making capacity and autonomy...
Blogpost: Best Practice in Monitoring Public Expenses
24 April 2012 | blogpost, budget, how-to, methodology, pfm, public admin, public expendituresBest practices in monitoring public expenses are important because they help the government allocate public resources. Therefore, tracking public expenses helps to identify and solve problems...
Philippines: A project to allow CSOs to get more involved in local public finance | Social Watch
19 April 2012 | budget, civ society, local governance, nat initiative, philippinesThe non governmental organization Code: Reforms for Economic Development (Code: RED) and Social Watch Philippines launched a policy monograph on transparency and accountability in local governance,...
Vacancy: Campaign-Manager, Budget Transparency
28 February 2012 | budget, opportunity, transparency, vacancyThe government’s budget affects the life of every citizen, especially those that are poor or marginalized. Yet, in many countries citizens have very little access to information about how the ...
Blogpost: Civil Society and Spending Data: Who is mapping the money?
16 January 2012 | budget, citizen monitoring, digital, information, mapping, opportunity, researchWe’re excited to announce that, thanks to the generous support of the Open Society Foundations, OKFN’s activities around financial transparency will expand to include a second pillar: next to the...
Blogpost: What should citizen participation in the budget process look like? (Open Budgets Blog, 19 May 2011)
01 July 2011 | budget, citizen monitoring, commentary, online debate, participatory mechanismsThis post of Albert van Zyl in the Open Budgets Blog discusses what requirements the are for meaningful participation in the government budget process. Budget transparency has little or no...
Launch (India):Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, 15 April 2011)
15 April 2011 | accountability, asia pacific, budget, india, local governance, transparencyBudget Transparency Study Report An essential pre requisite for enhancing public understanding of State Budgets and encouraging public involvement in the budget process of the State Governments is...
Blogpost: Results from the Open Budget Survey 2010 (PFMblog, 6 April 2011)
06 April 2011 | blogpost, budget, fiscal transparency, global indexPosted by Paolo de Renzio, International Budget Partnership Transparency in public budgeting has been recognized as a principle of sound governance for a long time. But the systematic assessment and...