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Creating Incentives for Budget Accountability and Good Financial Governance Through an Ecosystem Approach: What Can External Actors Do?

May 05, 2016

May 2016 | by Paolo de Renzio, International Budget Partnership with support of the Sector Program on Good Financial Governance

Past efforts at promoting public finance management reforms have

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Nothing About Us Without Us: An Informal Settlement Perspective on the 2017/18 Audit Findings for Metropolitan Municipalities

Jul 26, 2019

July 2019 | By Carlene van der Westhuizen with Teboho Tsietsi and Albert van Zyl, International Budget Partnership South Africa

This edition of Metro Budget Notes reviews the South African

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JAMKESMAS and District Health Care Insurance Schemes: Assessment Reports from 8 Districts/Municipalities and 2 Provinces

Nov 19, 2013

In 2004, the Government of Indonesia established the first milestone toward universal coverage of social insurance as part of government’s obligation as mandated by the constitution to provide protection and

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Promoting Accountability in the Budget Cycle: The Experience of Public Service Acountability Monitor in South Africa

May 04, 2003

Prepared for the 11th Anti-Corruption Conference, which took place in South Korea in May 2003, this paper introduces PSAM’s Performance Monitoring Project, which compiles information on the performance of the

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When Opportunity Beckons: The Impact of the Public Service Accountability Monitor’s Work on Improving Health Budgets in South Africa

Aug 26, 2013

By Alta Fölscher (Mokoro, Ltd.) and John Kruger (Oxford Policy Management).

The Eastern Cape Province of South Africa struggles with high poverty, poor public infrastructure, and dysfunctional administrative systems. One

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United States: Three state-level campaigns to increase income taxes on the rich

Dec 14, 2020

This case examines efforts to introduce higher income taxes on the wealthy by different civil society coalitions in three U.S. states. In each state, organizations that were part of a

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Civil Society Coalition for Quality Basic Education Carries Out Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys in Malawi

Feb 19, 2008

This case study looks at how the Civil Society Coalition for Quality Basic Education in Malawi uses public expenditure tracking surveys to measure the quality of education and the extent

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Budget Brief No. 33 – Parliament and National Treasury: How are They Playing Their Roles in Kenya’s New Budget Process?

Oct 28, 2015

The 2010 Constitution of Kenya and the Public Finance Management Act, 2012 (PFM Act) significantly altered the roles that Parliament and the National Treasury should be playing in Kenya’s

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IBP Kenya Budget Brief

2004 Pre-Budget Statement: “People’s Budget,” Recommendations and Contributions

Jan 24, 2004

This brief paper reflects on the voices of the poor in the budget formulation and execution stages through a pre-budget statement. It looks at the current levels of poverty in

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Health, Citizenship, and Human Rights Advocacy Initiative: Improving Access to Health Services in Mexico

Aug 26, 2013

By Almudena Ocejo (Centro de Contraloría Social y Estudios de la Construcción Democrática).

When it comes to health care in Mexico, “universal” has never meant equal, particularly when it came

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