Interest in public participation in the budget process is increasing, and the sector could learn a lot from practices in other sectors, such as the environment. As IBP’s Jason Lakin points out, we too often stay in our silos instead of looking to other fields for lessons learned about how to increase citizen engagement.
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How optimistic should we be about government commitments to invest the funds necessary to realize the Sustainable Development Goals? According to recent data, we should be worried. Government underspending of budgets is a global challenge that may impeded the realization of the SDGs.
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Bottom-up budgeting (BuB) can increase civil society participation in government. However, as this analysis of the Philippine experience shows, BuB does not automatically lead to increased government responsiveness. In this case, it provided civil society with a “voice” but without “teeth.”
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