Jul 28, 2011
The Lima Declaration is intended to provide criteria to ensure the independence and effectiveness of government auditing. This document provides the basic principles that must be respected in
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Jul 25, 2011
Example of state-based budget newsletter; includes analysis of California’s 2006-2007 budget.
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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
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Mar 15, 2010
This guide has been developed in response to a demand for practical tools to empower civil society and build state institutional capacity in public policy and budget monitoring,
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Jan 19, 2010
Constituency Development Fund (CDF) schemes are decentralization initiatives that send funds from the central government to each constituency for expenditure on development projects intended to address particular local
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Feb 01, 2009
February 2009 | By International Budget Partnership
The Open Budget Survey 2008 included 85 countries. Independent civil society researchers or research organizations collected the data, which was peer-reviewed
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Jan 19, 2009
The gaps between approved budgets and the realization of policy and development goals stand among key governance challenges in many developing countries. Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) play an
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Sep 19, 2008
This model report provides an example of how civil society organizations can analyze the fiscal framework and the assumptions used by the government to set the taxing and
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Aug 19, 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of political institutions and budget governance in aid- and resource-dependent countries. Budget governance refers to the quality of budget outcomes, such as the
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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
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