What’s going on in the world of open budgets?
Oct 29, 2013
Check out these recent articles and publications for some analyses and updates on global budget transparency, accountability, and participation.
Publications
- World Bank report on key challenges and lessons learned from budget transparency and monitoring initiatives (also see this related video)
- New IBP policy note on the challenges and opportunities for budget transparency in Tunisia
- Paper by IBP’s Albert van Zyl on the role of civil society organizations in transparency and accountability systems, presented at the 3rd Global Conference on Transparency Research
- Report from the Africa Research Institute on reforming revenue administration in Burundi
- IMF paper on the origins of fiscal transparency in Western Europe
Open Budget Index
- Blog post from Population Action International looking at what the 2012 OBI scores mean for groups that focus on budget advocacy
- Blog post from the Institute of Social Justice that breaks down the results of the 2012 OBI for Pakistan
- A look at how Malaysia scored on the OBI, and groups calling for greater budget accountability in Malaysia
- A discussion on the state of budget transparency in Azerbaijan preceeding budget discussions in parliament
Global Transparency Week
- Launch of Publish What You Fund’s 2013 Aid Transparency Index
- Commentary on the upcoming Open Government Partnership summit
- What the ONE campaign wants the OGP summit to deliver
- TechPresident’s take on what to watch for at the OGP summit
- Warren Krafchik on important conversations for discussion at OGP13
- AidData 3.0 – the new release of AidData’s development data portal
- More information Global Transparency Week