Feb 19, 2008
This case study shows how Procurement Watch Inc., in the Philippines has developed and used an innovative expenditure tracking methodology (the Differential Expenditure Efficiency Measurement, or DEEM) to analyze procurement
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Jan 31, 2018
January 2018 | by International Budget Partnership
The International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Survey (OBS) is the world’s only independent, comparative assessment of the three pillars of public budget
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Nov 28, 2017
November 2017 | By International Budget Partnership South Africa Download »
How transparent and participatory are the budgets of Metropolitan Municipalities in South Africa?
Evidence from around the world shows
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Jan 15, 2018
January 2018 | By Ian Lienert, Consultant Download in English » Download in French »
Prior to the Open Budget Survey (OBS) 2015, the average overall Open Budget Index transparency
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Apr 04, 2019
April 2019 | Mokeira Nyagaka and John Kinuthia, International Budget Partnership Kenya Click to Download »
In Kenya, county Audit Reports give an independent evaluation on whether counties were prudent
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Oct 25, 2010
October 2010 | By International Budget Partnership
The Open Budget Survey 2010 included 94 countries. Independent civil society researchers or research organizations collected the data, which was peer-reviewed and further
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Apr 30, 2020
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The executive summary of the 2019 Open Budget Survey offers a quick snapshot on the state of budget transparency, oversight and participation around the world.
Download the executive
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Feb 19, 2008
This case study looks at how Hakikazi Catalyst in Tanzania implemented a variation of the “citizen report card” to assess the impact of government spending. Hakikazi developed PIMA cards (pima
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Dec 01, 2020
This brief explores the idea that government decisions, including choices about the budget, affect people’s lives and should be reasonable, not arbitrary – a broad idea that has evolved into
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Mar 26, 2012
Parastatal loans, transfers of public funds to government-owned enterprises, represent 12 percent of South Africa’s annual GDP. Despite South Africa’s high level of budget transparency, there are few ways to
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