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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Oct 07, 2013
In September 2011 the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and civil society partners in 10 countries with limited transparency launched an advocacy initiative to increase the amount of budget information made
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May 14, 2013
This report details the findings of a social audit of more than 5,000 of Cape Town’s communal toilets. The social audit concluded the city was failing to monitor contractors, leading
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