Center for Budget and
Policy Studies Maitri Bhavan,
1st floor,
[Above The United Lodge of Theosophists]
4 M.N. Krishna Road,
Basavangudi, Bangalore - 560 004
India
Areas of Expertise
State level budget
analysis, social sector expenditures, local governance, and local
finances.
Recent Reports
Estimating District Income in
India,
by Rohini Nayyar, Meenakshi Rajeev, Vinod Vyasulu, Macmillan India,
2003;
City Governments, Budget Analysis
and Public Participation: The Experience of
Bangalore,
by Seema Dargar, 2003
Productivity and Food Security- A Marginal Situation Case Study,
by Sharadini Rath
Analysis of
municipal budgets in Karnataka and Maharashtra
Poverty-Nutrition-Work Linkages: a Study on Orissa and Kerala
Worked with the
IBP in the preparation of
case studies of civil society budget analysis, edited by Warren
Karfchik and Mark Robinson.
Major Current
Activities
Looking at the newly set up system of local
government, using budgets for training, advocacy, etc.
Training to estimate district level income
for local governments planning.
Working on budget information
systems at the district level in Kerala and Maharashtra.
Part of task force of the Union
Commission on Centre State Relations.
Part of the
technical committee of the State Ministers of Panchayati Raj.
"PATHEYA" -
Budget Information and Analysis Services (BIAS)
5, Mangaldeep Flats
Near Parikshit Bridge
Gandhi Ashram Post
Ahmedabad - 380 027
India
Areas of Expertise
Budgets of all departments of
State as well as Federal Government of India, especially in terms of provisions and
commitment made towards poor and backward, vis a vis policy priorities of the government.
Recent Reports
Reports on various budget proposals. Our analyses are more
confrontational in nature to create a demand for explanation from the ruling government
during the budget debate.
Annual report on Patheya's activities of budget
analysis, advocacy, and capacity building in budget analysis and good governance.
Major Current
Activities
Applied budget analysis for
advocacy and lobbying activities with elected representatives and political parties in
State Assembly and Parliament, to address how poor people are left out from budget
policies and priorities; examine budget spending trends; and the impact of budget policies
on the poor. We emphasize issues affecting dalits (untouchables), tribals, women,
and agricultural labourers. Patheya regularly organizes training programs
at national and regional levels to build NGOs, social activists, and researchers' capacity
in budget analysis and good governance.
Budget of
the government of Rajasthan with special reference to health, education,
agriculture, animal husbandry, irrigation, rural small non-farm sector,
scheduled castes – scheduled tribes – other backward class (Dalit
and Adivasi), rural development, social securities for widows and
disabled people.
Recent
Reports
Understanding
Budget Terminologies and Processes for Monitoring Public Expenditures
(in English and Hindi)
The Destitution
of Widows in Rajasthan -- What Role Has the State Played? (in English
and Hindi)
How Long would
the Dalits (so called untouchables) Continue to be Deprived of Their
Due Shares? (in English)
Trade
Liberalisation and Indian Farm Sector: Understanding the Situation
from Available Evidence (in English)
Welfare Schemes
for Dalits (so called untouchables), Poor and Deprived People (in
Hindi)
Poverty
Alleviation Programmes: How Far Have They Succeeded or Failed? (in
Hindi)
Assessing
Gender Budgeting at Local Level: How to Carry out Advocacy? (in Hindi)
The Budgets and
Schemes for Dalits (so called untouchables) and Adivasis (tribals) (in
Hindi)
Expenditures in
Social Services in Rajasthan (in Hindi)
The Divergence
between the Promises and Accomplishments in the Rural Small
Enterprises Sector (in Hindi)
Public Welfare
Schemes and Their Reach to Common People (in Hindi)
Crop Insurance
in Rajasthan -- The Need for Reform (in Hindi)
Budget
Samachar (Quarterly Newsletter in Hindi)
Major
Current Activities
Examining discrepancies between estimated budget
and actual expenditure, i.e. identifying the inefficient departments
in spending money for the poor;
Examining the impact of globalization on public
expenditures;
Conducting budget trainings for NGOs, legislators,
and the Panchayati Raj Institution (local bodies) members;
Conducting field-based micro study in order to
assess the impact of government expenditures on the poor;
Disseminating the findings of the studies through
press conferences and publications;
Responding to requests for budget information from
different organizations and individuals.
A-11, Second
Floor, Niti Bagh
Khel Gaon Marg
New Delhi-110049, India
Areas of Expertise
Advocacy
Research
Training &
Capacity Building
Major Current Activities
Spreading
awareness about budgets and economic literacy is one of the major
activities.
Advocacy workshops
and capacity building exercises with partners in different regions of
the country.
Collaborating with
national and international budget groups on budget transparency and
accountability issues .
Engaging with
policy makers, legislators, experts and the media to advance the
rights of the underprivileged sections of society.
Responding to the
allocations and proposals of the Union Budget with rigorous budget
analysis within 48 hours of its presentation in Parliament.
Studying public
policies and priorities driving budgets; trend analysis of budget
allocations and expenditures; and socio-economic indicators.
The key areas of
research are agriculture, rural development, poverty alleviation,
health, education, and marginalized sectors (dalits, adivasis, women,
children, etc).
The newsletter
Budget Track (published quarterly), presents CBGA's opinion on
relevant developments related to budget and public policy issues in
the country.
CUTS, D-217, Bhaskar Marg
Banipark, Jaipur
PIN-302 016 India
Areas of Expertise
CUTS
began in 1983, from a rural development communication initiative - a
wall-newspaper "Gram Gadar'' (Village Revolution) - with a group of
concerned citizens operating out of a garage with zero money.
CUTS is a non-profit organization dedicated to research and advocacy on
basic economic and development issues. CUTS focuses on
research, training, and advocacy in the following areas:
consumer protection;
international trade and
development;
competition investment and economic
regulation;
good governance with a focus on
accountability and access to information;
CUTS releases quarterly newsletters: CUTS in Action, Policy Watch,
Reguletter, Catalyst, Paanchava Stambh (Hindi), and
Gram Gadar (Hindi).
Major Current Activities
Research on how
to influence public expenditure outcomes and enhance transparency and
accountability using various social accountability approaches and
tools.
Capacity building of CSOs.
Research on sustainable mobility and traffic claming
strategies.
Public
Affairs Centre No.15,
KIADB Industrial Area, Bommasandra – Jigani Link Road, Bangalore -
562106
India
Areas of
Expertise
Citizen Report Cards (service delivery feedback surveys among users) and
Municipal Budgets.
Recent
Reports
Who Benefits from India’s Public
Services? A People’s Audit of Five Basic Services – Samuel Paul, Suresh Balakrishnan, Gopakumar K.Thampi,
Sita Sekhar, and M. Vivekananda.
Benchmarking
Bangalore’s Public Services: What the Third Citizen Report Card
Reveals – Sita Sekhar and Manisha Shah.
Deepening Democracy: A Decade of Electoral Intervention by Civil
Society Groups 1996-2006.
Holding the State to Account: Lessons of Bangalore’s Citizen Report
Cards,
Samuel Paul.
Karnataka’s Citizen Charters: A Preliminary Assessment,
Anuradha Rao.
City Finances in India -
some disquieting trends - Sita
Sekhar and Smita Bidarkar.
Electoral Disclosure in Karnataka:
A Reality Check,
Samuel Paul, Poornima D.G., Anuradha Rao.
Are they being
Served? Citizen Report Card on Public Services for the Poor in Peri-Urban
Areas of Bangalore, Sita Sekhar, Meena Nair and Venugopal Reddy.
Second Citizen report
card on public services in Hubli-Dharwad.
A community
participatory appraisal of the national rural roads project.
Coalition to help those affected by corruption in the delivery of public
services.
Study of the
Impact of Initiatives of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan on Universalisation of
Elementary Education in Karnataka with special reference to Concerns of
Quality and Equity.
Development of a model for a Social Audit of the National Rural Employee
Guarantee Scheme in Karnataka.
Assessment of
Implementation Right to Information in India.
Serenity Complex
Ramnagar Colony
Pashan, Pune - 411 021
India
Areas of Expertise
Advocacy and grassroots capacity-building at
state, national, and international levels through
research and training to support marginalized sectors of society.
Social Watch Tamilnadu
202, Chitra Avenue Shopping Inn,
9, Choolaimedu High Road
Chennai - 600094
India
Areas of Expertise
Public policy advocacy in social
development. Social monitoring sectoral budget critiques (mainly gender-budgeting,
dalit budgeting, and child budgeting). Pre-budget lobbying and alternate budget
creation.
Recent Reports
Budget Analysis as Social Audit - Tamilnadu
Experiences
Socio-Economic Development of Dalits and Budgeting for
Dalits
Social Development Concerns - A pre-budget Memorandum
Tamilnadu Social Development Report 2000
White Papers & Black Truths (Budgetary process from
Social Development perspective)
Women Componet Plan - Towards gender Budgeting in
Tamilnadu
Right to Water - Towards a policy
framework in Tamilnadu
MDGs & Dalits -
The Missiong Dimension
Peoples'
Manifesto and Pary Manifestoes
Major Current Activities
Training legislators in budgets and social
development issues.
Organizing interactions among grassroots groups, researchers,
and bureaucrats on socio economic rights in Tamilnadu and budgeting.
Linking our work at the national level as a member of "Centre for
Budget and Governance Accountability", based in New Delhi.
Social Equity Audits in the context of Tsunami and disasters.
Sanket Centre for Budget Studies (SCBS)
E-2/141, Arera colony, Bhopal
– 462016 India
Areas of
Expertise
Sanket
Centre for Budget Studies (SCBS), Bhopal is an initiative of Sanket
Development Group (SDG) – a group actively involved in action research
in Madhya Pradesh on issues related to human development for over a
decade. SCBS, Bhopal
began its operations in April 2006. SCBS focuses on research, training
and capacity building and advocacy in the following areas:
Madhya
Pradesh state budget analysis.
Analysis of government spending on social and economic sectors.
Gender
budget analysis.
Budget
analysis at the national level.
Research on issues related human development.
Training and capacity building on state budgets.
Recent
Reports
Budget Bodh, Rajya Budget Sarlikaran - Ek Prayas (in Hindi)
Urban Madhya Pradesh.
Education Sector Analysis Using Budget as a Tool.
Major
Current Activities
Budget
literacy on state budgets.
Budget
advocacy workshops and capacity building exercises with CSOs at the
state level.
Capacity building of elected representatives on budget issues.
Research on
education, water and sanitation, poverty, health, malnutrition,
marginalized sectors (dalits, adivasis, women and children), and
fiscal decentralization at the state level.
Budget tracking in elementary education.
Dissemination of budget information and analysis to CSOs.
E-1 Institutional Area
Gangadhar Meher Marg
Bhubaneswar - 751013
India
Areas of Expertise
Analyzing
the budget making policies and practices in Orissa.
Tracking of State budget in different sectors from the perspective of
poor.
Analyzing macro issues of public finance such as debt, state revenue
generations and fiscal management.
Analysis of priorities of five year plans.
Tracking of flagship programs of Government.
Citizen’s advocacy with legislatures and media on budget and human
rights.
Recent Reports
Budget watch 1: State Spending on
Social Services in Orissa 1995/96 – 2003/2004
Budget Watch 2: Pattern of State
Spending in Orissa: A Summary Report
Budget Watch 3: In Search of
Solvency: The Public Debt Scenario in Orissa
Budget Watch 4: The Basics of Budget
Making: A Primer
Making Sense of the Budget: A
Handbook on Budget Terminology
Ama budget kichhi janiba katha(oriya)
Mineral Revenue and Coal Royalty:
Where Orissa Stands?
Budget terminology and its processes
Budget Round up: Half yearly news
letter
Major Current
Activities
Dissemination of authentic,
simplified information on budgetary processes and trends;
Multiplication of cogent discourses
on budgetary issues in civil society in the state, especially through
pre and post budget panel discussion and bilateral discussion;
Expenditure
tracking of public distribution system;
Analysis of revenue generation in the state;
Submission of
memorandum to the govt. on the neglected clusters of the state budget.
