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- 2 October 2018: Better budgeting: public participation is Australia’s ‘weakest link’, The Mandarin
- 7 May 2018: DBM says gov’t committed to budget transparency, GMA News Online
- 18 April 2018: Egypt’s budget transparency score improved: World Bank, Egypt Today
- 30 March 2018: Limitation in open budget index, Việt Nam News
- 29 March 2018: Tanzania falls sharply in Open Budget Survey, new study shows, The Citizen Tanzania
- 21 March 2018: Malawi rating drops on Open Budget Index, Malawi 24
- 19 March 2018: New Zealand, US and UK outrank Australia in scores on budget transparency, The Conversation
- 7 March 2018: Budget monitoring and participation is wanting, Daily Monitor (Uganda)
- 2 March 2018: Politicians are hiding how they spend money. That’s a political mistake., The Washington Post (blog)
- 8 February 2018: Datawatch: Budget transparency, Financial Times
- 7 February 2018: DFID seeks to tackle declines in global budget transparency, Devex
- 6 February 2018: Low budget transparency ranking as a wake-up call, Today Tells
- 6 February 2018: Open Budget Survey 2017: global comparison of budget transparency comes at a critical time, Open Knowledge International Blog
- 6 February 2018: Ukraine has risen in the ranking of budget transparency, Ukrop News 24
- 5 February 2018: Post-Soviet countries reached higher levels of budget transparency, Strategeast
- 4 February 2018: Not as good as it seems, Rappler
- 2 February 2018: Most African citizens have no way of knowing what, or how, their governments spend, ONE
- 2 February 2018: Georgia Leads Emerging Europe in Budget Transparency, Emerging Europe
- 1 February 2018: Open budget index, The Economist
- 1 February 2018: Jordan ranks first in region on Open Budget Index, The Jordan Times
- 31 January 2018: SA ranked first in Open Budget Index survey, IOL Business Report
- 31 January 2018: Georgian PM lauds country’s 2017 economic performance, Agenda.ge
- 31 January 2018: PH ranks first in Asia for budget transparency, Philippine Information Agency
- 31 January 2018: Sri Lankan govt urged to present simpler ‘citizen’s budget’, Economy Next
- 31 January 2018: India half-way through in promoting budget transparency: Global Survey, The Siasat Daily
- 31 January 2018: Bangladesh’s Budget More Transparent Than India’s, NDTV
- 31 January 2018: Ghana not progressing in budget transparency – OBS Report, Ghana News Agency
- 31 January 2018: Zambia among least transparent countries, Q FM Zambia
- 31 January 2018: 2017 budget survey report launched, Loop PNG
- 30 January 2018: Participation In Nigeria’s Budget System Weak, Says Group, Straight News
- 30 January 2018: Compared with its peers, Canada’s budget process leaves room for improvement, The Globe and Mail
- 30 January 2018: Open Budget Survey 2017: Macedonia lacks budget transparency, Macedonian Information Agency
- 30 January 2018: Egypt budget transparency improved, though information still limited, oversight weak: IBP survey, Ahram Online
- 30 January 2018: Budget transparency is declining, global survey reveals, Public Finance International
- 18 July 2017: Concerns as counties fail to publish budget reports, HiviSasa
- 5 July 2017: Two Days with the Radiographers of Power, Chemonics
- 14 June 2017: Where is the 2016 budget implementation report?, The Guardian Nigeria
- 31 May 2017: No Ordinary IPO: Why Aramco Investors Should Scrutinize Saudi Rights Record, Military Technologies
- 12 May 2017: Health Scheme for Poor Misses its Mark: Study, Times of India
- 10 May 2017: FG to launch Citizens Budget Portal for transparency, The Daily Times
- 7 May 2017: Problems with financial accountability in counties, Business Daily Africa
- 28 April 2017: What Percentage of County Revenue Comes from Their Own Collections?, The Star
- 26 April 2017: Investing in Children and Budget Transparency in Africa, IMF PFM Blog
- 26 April 2017: Fight for power takes new forms as Kenyan elections approach, Reuters
- 6 April 2017: Finally, Clean Running Water For Spring Valley Informal Settlement, Witbank News
- 24 March 2017: Report raises red flag over budget cash use, The Star
- 23 March 2017: Openness can help economy move faster, The Financial Express
- 24 February 2017: Budget Transparency: Facts are there for all to see, Financial Mail
- 16 February 2017: Government Accountability is More than a Simple Equation, From Poverty to Power
- 5 February 2017: Presupuesto con visión de género: un tema fuera de agenda, La Nacion
- 9 January 2017: Will India See a Much-Needed Increase in Health Funding in 2017?, From Poverty to Power
- 16 December 2016: A New Light Shines on Africa, U.S. News & World Report
- 15 December 2016: In the Eye of the Beholder: When is governance data “good enough”?, AidData
- 8 December 2016: Rethinking the way we do anti-corruption, NATO Review Magazine
- 6 December 2016: Auditors should make reports more accessible says transparency group, Public Finance International
- 23 November 2016: Does aid dependency hinder budget transparency?, DevPolicy Blog
- 21 November 2016: Participation of public in budget making must be prioritised, Business Daily Africa
- 23 October 2016: Idle Workers Inevitable Cuts: Ministers Grade Saudi Economy, Bloomberg
- 7 October 2016: Govt releases Citizens Budget in bid to boost finance transparency, Myanmar Times
- 26 September 2016: There’s a Message for City Planners in Cape Town Plumbing Poll, Next City
- 28 June 2016: IBP Scores Top Marks for Transparency in New Report, Transparify
- 13 January 2016: Technology Falls Short in Promoting Responsible Governance in Developing World, U.S. News & World Report
- 17 December 2015: Le budget citoyen, un grand mensonge en Tunisie, Espace Manager
- 9 December: No Participation, Dawn
- 3 December 2015: Governors on the spot for ignoring public participation in budget making, Daily Nation
- 4 November 2015: Global agency recognizes PH ‘bottom-up budgeting’, Manila Bulletin
- 3 November 2015: Involve locals in budget implementation, counties urged, Nakuru County News
- 22 October 2015: La vida cotidiana de la democracia, Bastion Digital
- 10 October 2015: Dear Mr Njonjo: On devolution the numbers do not lie, The Star
- 30 September 2015: Meagre budget allocation driving ailing health sector to its deathbed, Media Max
- 27 September 2015: The economics of teachers’ clamour for higher wages, Business Daily Africa
- 2 September 2015: Loans threaten counties, budget expert warns, Nakuru County News
- 18 August 2015: Pemex, Segob y Sener con más presupuesto y poca claridad: ONG, Grupo En Concreto
- 30 July 2015: Shocking: Nearly 99% of Kenya budget can’t be properly accounted for; what about rest of Africa? Mail & Guardian Africa
- 29 July 2015: Aquino endorses FOI bill, The Washington Times
- 20 July 2015: Tunisia: Making the difficult transition from autocracy to democratic rule
- 4 June 2015: Making the budget more transparent,The Financial Express
- 30 April 2015: Cape Sanitation Budget under Fire, Independent News
- 23 April 2015: 600 Khayelitsha Residents to Hand Over Submissions on Council Budget, Times Live
- 7 April 2015: Transparency Is Not Enough to Alleviate “Corruption Fatigue”, Rand Daily Mail
- 2 March 2015: Show Us the Budget, Africans Ask, Business Day Live
- 28 February 2015: Budget 2015: Experts Slam Government for Slashing Health Budget, The Times of India
- 18 February 2015: Cracking down on tax abuse will help promote economic and social rights, Open Democracy
- 6 February 2015: State Department Quietly Releases Fiscal Transparency Report, U.S. News & World Report
- 5 February 2015: Poke Me: Why not a Budget from the Ramlila grounds?, The Economic Times
- 2 February 2015: A New Tool in the Fight for Fiscal Transparency, Devex
- 30 January 2015: Kenya’s Senate Team Pushes for More Funds, Strict County Staff Hiring
- 4 January 2015: Considera 45% de mexicanos que prevalece la corrupción en el sector público: diputados, El Mexicano
- 3 January 2015: CESOP señala que mejora la información gubernamental respecto a 2010, Pulso Diario de San Luis
- November 25, 2014: Evaluación de la Transparencia Presupuestaria en Honduras
- November 12, 2014: “Below the Line“
- November 7, 2014: “Kenya Counties’ Wider Tax Plans Scare Investors“
- November 6, 2014: “Kenya County Tax Plan on Chicken, Burials Risks Business“
- October 29, 2014: “Open Government in Practice – Open Budgets“
- October 23, 2014: “South Africa: Nene’s Medium Term Budget Fails to Get Balance Right Between Fiscal and Social Responsibility“
- October 15, 2014: “Finances publiques : Le budget de l’Etat vulgarisé“
- October 14, 2014: “Brasil está em 12º lugar no ranking da transparência pública“
- October 12, 2014: “User-pays principle is here to stay”
- October 12, 2014: “Governor will walk a rates tightrope“
- October 8, 2014: “Gobierno aplazado en transparencia presupuestaria“
- October 1, 2014: “Egypt Launches Citizen’s Budget to Improve Transparency“
- September 3, 2014: “New report: $1 Trillion siphoned from poor countries every year“
- August 27, 2014: “Incorporating Feedback: Citizens Should Be Involved in All Stages of Budget Making at Local Level“
- August 14, 2014: “Analysis: Data to the People!“
- August 3, 2014: “A transparent budget“
- August 1, 2014: “Bridging Transparency and Technology“
- July 17, 2014: “UN Urged Not to Remove Access to Data from Draft“
- July 10, 2014: “Nicaragua con desafíos en transparencia presupuestaria“
- May 20, 2014: “We Need to Prepare More Than Annual Budgets and Make Taxation Transparent“
- May 13, 2014: “Government commences the process of revising Zambia’s national budgeting format“
- May 12, 2014: “Winning the War Against Corruption“
- February 27, 2014: “County Governments Rush to Table Fiscal Strategy Paper“
- January 20, 2014: “Kenya’s Banking Revolution Lights a Fire“
- June 25, 2013: “Solomon Islands government defends new treatment of public money“
- May 01, 2013: “Kenya: Let’s get devolution right in agriculture”
- April 16, 2013: “Open data platforms: a tool to revolutionise governance”
- January 23, 2013: “Budget transparency ‘generally dismal’ across the world”
- January 23, 2013: “Three-quarters of countries ‘hide financial information’”
- January 23, 2013: “Results of the 2012 Open Budget Survey and Index”
- January 23, 2013: “NZ government transparency tops world”
- January 22, 2013: “Ministry of Strategy and Finance of the Republic of Korea Places Eighth Out of 100 Countries in IBP Survey, First in Public Engagement“
- August 07, 2012: “What can we learn from eight successful campaigns on budget transparency and accountability?“
- January 9, 2012: “Role of Civil Society in Budget Process”
- December 12, 2011: “Premier Cox: Pre-Budget Report”
- November 20, 2011: “Activists launch campaign for transparent budgets”
- September 26, 2011: “Open Budget and Open Data on Public Policies“
- September 20, 2011: “Fact Sheet: The Open Government Partnership”
- July 12, 2011: “Clinton kicks off open-government partnership”
- June 10, 2011: “Global coalition launches call for more transparent aid”
- May 23, 2011: “Busan – Accountability Matters”
- May 20, 2011: “TIGblogs – Chijioke Obinna Okonkwo”
- May 9, 2011: Blog: “Transparency Versus Effectiveness in Public Financial Management”
- Mar 1, 2011: Don’t Like the Budget? Well There is Nothing You Can Do About It
- Feb 2, 2011: Where Is The Money? Financial Transparency Norms For A New Reality
- Jan 31, 2011: Mexico’s Universal Health Care Is Work in Progress
- Jan 18, 2011: The IBP & Global Witness Call on the European Commission to Improve Budget Support
- Jan 12, 2011: U.K. House of Lords Cites the IBPs Ask Your Government! Initiative in Call for Greater Budget Transparency
- Sep 12, 2010: “Ordinary Africans Play Key Role in Holding Governments Accountable”
- Aug 19, 2010: Blog: “What is wrong with Constituency Development Funds?”
- Apr 16, 2010: “Evaluating China’s Drive for Budget Transparency”
- Oct 30, 2009: “Every Budget Tells a Story”
Open Budget Survey in the News
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Open Budget Survey 2015 Media Coverage
- 26 October 2015: Following the money: budget transparency in Central Asia, The Guardian
- 20 October 2015: Rank Has Its Privileges, Foreign Affairs
- 8 October 2015: Participation is the Next Transparency Frontier for OGP, Open Government Partnership Blog
- 6 October 2015: Discover How 4% of Governments Are Leading the World in Budget Accountability, Bang the Table
- 30 September 2015: Southeast Asia’s Transparency Problem, The Diplomat
- 29 September 2015: Radio Interview with Warren Krafchik and Vivek Ramkumar, Bloomberg Radio
- 25 September 2015: Finishing the Job, Huffington Post
- 19 September 2015: Beyond handouts, The Economist
- 12 September 2015: Open budget index, The Economist
- 10 September 2015: SA’s budget still transparent, but devil is in lack of details, Business Day Live
- 8 September 2015: These Countries Scored the Worst on Budget Transparency, Bloomberg Business
- 8 September 2015: 2 Out Of 3 Countries Go To A Lot Of Effort To Hide How They Spend Their Money, Co.Exist
Open Budget Survey Tracker Media Coverage
- September 28, 2015: Μήπως ήρθε η ώρα να ξέρουμε που πάνε τα χρήματα μας
- July 29, 2015: Aquino endorses FOI bill
- July 7, 2015: Media interaction on the Post-2015 Agenda and Open Budget Survey Tracker
- June 30, 2015: Opening Up Budgets in MENA
- June 1, 2015: Open and Transparent Budget Process in Western Balkan Countries
- May 26, 2015: Using public finance data to monitor sub-national resource allocation in Kenya
- March 31, 2015: Παρουσίαση OBS Tracker
- March 23, 2015: What does it take to shift gears in budget transparency? The case of Kenya
- March 17, 2015: Uwazi katika Bajeti Yetu: Je, tunasonga mbele au Kurudi Nyuma?
- March 16, 2015: SEND Ghana Calls On CSOs To Build Capacity To Enhance Good Governance
- March 15, 2015: SEND-Ghana empowers civil society for budget transparency
- March 11, 2015: Absence of pre-budget statement limits citizens from engaging in budget formulation exercise
- March 10, 2015: Μελέτη για την Διαφάνεια και Ανοιχτότητα του Προϋπολογισμού στην Ελλάδα
- March 10, 2015: Are you tracking YOUR money?
- March 7, 2015: Budget transparency & accountability workshop held
- March 6, 2015: Πού πηγαίνουν οι φόροι μας
- February 24, 2015: Three months after, Nigerian govt yet to release official budget details
- February 12, 2015: Fiji is on the right path towards budget transparency
- February 10, 2015: Magyarország Macedóniával egy szinten
- February 2, 2015: A new tool in the fight for fiscal transparency
- January 26, 2015: Fast progress possible on open budgets
- January 25, 2015: Πόσο “Ανοιχτός” είναι ο Προϋπολογισμός της χώρας σου
- January 22, 2015: The OBS Tracker: A new Tool for Continuous Monitoring of Budget Transparency
- December 11, 2014: افتتاح موقع مرصد الموازنة المفتوحة
- December 8, 2014: Nigeria lags behind Ghana, Kenya, Mali in budget information dissemination
- November 22, 2014: Govt Fails to Release Budget Reports
- November 22, 2014: Tanzania sasa yasakamwa kwa rushwa
- November 22, 2014: Need to Establish Public Money Expenditure Network
- November 22, 2014: Dar fails on budget feedback
- November 18, 2014: The Heartbeat of Budget Transparency
- November 2014: Budget de l’etat: Le gouvernement invité à plus de transparence
- November 14, 2014: Open Budget Survey Tracker
- November 12, 2014: Absence of Ghana’s Pre-Budget Statement Worrying
- November 9, 2014: Budget de l’etat: Le gouvernement invité à plus de transparence
- November 9, 2014: Accessibilité du budget à la population: La Côte d’Ivoire à la traîne
- November 3, 2014: CSO calls for open budgeting to foster devt
- October 30, 2014: Entrevista al presidente de la Fundación Solidaridad, Juan Castillo
- October 30, 2014: Revelan brechas críticas en las informaciones presupuestarias que el gobierno divulga al público
- October 29, 2014: Afirman transparencia de los presupuestos públicos ayudan a reducir la corrupción
- October 29, 2014: Ανοιχτοί Προϋπολογισμοί. Για όλους, με όλους!
- October 22, 2014: Open Budget Survey Tracker Roundtable in Nigeria Organised by CIRRDOC in collaboration with Centre LSD (video)
- October 21, 2014: 胜利者和失败者:“人权预算”能够给贫困群体带来什么帮助
- October 15, 2014: Les gagnants et les perdants : comment la budgétisation pour les droits de l’homme peut aider les pauvres
- October 13, 2014: Có bất thường khi công khai ngân sách Việt Nam xếp vào nhóm cuối?
- October 13, 2014: Có bất thường khi công khai ngân sách Việt Nam xếp vào nhóm cuối?
- October 10, 2014: Người Việt “mù mờ” về ngân sách nhà nước
- October 9, 2014: Ganadores y perdedores: Presupuestar con perspectiva de derechos humanos le sirve a los pobres
- October 9, 2014: Tăng cường chỉ số xếp hạng minh bạch ngân sách
- October 8, 2014: Conférence de presse sur l’outil “Tracker”, jeudi
- October 3, 2014: La nueva herramienta de seguimiento de la transparencia presupuestaria revela brechas críticas en la información financiera que los gobiernos divulgan al público
- October 1, 2014: Pemenang dan yang terpinggirkan: bagaimana anggaran untuk hak asasi manusia dapat membantu kaum tidak mampu
- October 1, 2014: Presupuesto claro mejorará riesgo país
- October 1, 2014: La nueva herramienta de seguimiento de la transparencia presupuestaria revela brechas críticas en la información financiera que los gobiernos divulgan al público
- September 29, 2014: Комитет ЖК по международным делам обсудил проект закона «О республиканском бюджете на 2015 год»
- September 27, 2014: Winners and losers: how budgeting for human rights can help the poor
- September 18, 2014: الموازنة العامة الفلسطينية تعاني من ضعف في الشفافية
- September 15, 2014: “Track Budget Documents Real-Time“
- September 15, 2014: “Bridging Transparency and Technology“
- August 14, 2014: “Kyrgyzstan Joins Budget Tracker International Database of Budget Information“
Opinion & Editorial by IBP Program Staff
- February 6, 2016: Mystified by Eurobond figures? Actually, our problems go much deeper than that, The East African
- January 2, 2016: Instead of erecting a wall of evidence on Eurobond, Treasury put out spreadsheets, The East African
- December 26, 2015: Amendments to the KDF Act do not actually change the status quo, but remain poor strategy, The East African
- December 12, 2015: Curiouser and curiouser: Finally, Kenya Treasury moves to ‘clear the air’ on Eurobond, The East African
- November 28, 2015: The new new formula: Proposal from CRA makes small strides in the right direction, The East African
- November 14, 2015: How far can the president or a governor go in influencing lawmaking in Kenya’s system?, The East African
- November 14, 2015: What Does The Constitution Say About Public Finance And Are We Implementing It? Part 2, The Star
- November 7, 2015: What does the constitution say about public finances and are we implementing it?, The Star
- September 19, 2015: SRC wants subsidised car loans for all public servants, but who will pay for it?
- August 8, 2015: Auditor General’s report: How to cut out the sound and fury that signifies nothing, The East African
- July 25, 2015: Media must understand that money that isn’t accounted for isn’t always looted, The East African
- July 13, 2015: Reward greediest counties? Anger public with hard facts, The East African
- May 2, 2015: Who’s Afraid of Recurrent Expenditure? The Entire Media and Analyst Industry, It Seems, The East African
- March 21, 2015: “Budget: We’re Busy Focusing on the Nail Polish on the Left Foot of an Elephant“
- February 27, 2015: “Counties’ Share of National Revenue Will Shrink Slightly This Year“
- February 7, 2015: “Does It Matter If Money for Free Maternity Care Is Given on the Basis of Population?”
- December 13, 2014: “You Said You Were Going to Spend Our Money on Things We Agreed on; Did You?
- November 29, 2014: “Kenyans Need to be Involved in Revenue Sharing Debate“
- November 29, 2014: “When It Comes to Public Finance, Kenya Is Giving a Whole New Meaning to Impunity“
- August 23, 2014: “Chaos Reigns in Funding for Regional Hospitals, But No One Seems to Care“
- August 9, 2014: “If Budgeting Is to be a Dialogue, We Need to Know Why and When to Talk“
- July 27, 2014: “Revising the County Allocation Formula“
- July 26, 2014: “Let a thousand small projects bloom: CDF state of mind has Kenya in its grip“
- July 12, 2014: “Who’s Afraid of Machakos County? Not I, Given Their peculiar Budgeting Habits“
- June 14, 2014: “Better public debate on figures needed“
- June 14, 2014: “Kenya wants more money to finance infrastructure, but can it actually spend it?“
- May 31, 2014: “Senate debates division of revenue, media ignores the whole thing, hospitals lose out“
- May 17, 2014: “Treasury Increases Budget Transparency (Just Don’t Ask About Maternal Deaths)“
- April 5, 2014: “How many health workers are there? The answer is blowing in the wind“
- April 19, 2014: “The More Kenya Strives for Transparency, the More Opaque Its Budgeting Becomes“
- March 22, 2014: “A county’s fiscal strategy paper is the soul of budgeting past, present, future“
- March 8, 2014: “In the Kenyan parliament we want, they are building the state, not tearing it down“
- February 27, 2014: “County governments rush to table fiscal strategy paper“
- February 8, 2014: “Division of revenue debate is about Kenya’s national priorities“
- January 25, 2014: “Counties aren’t to blame for high wage bills; give them a break“
- January 17, 2014: “Controller Of Budget Report: The Glass Is Actually Half Full“
- January 11, 2014: “Suffer the little children: Why equality of outcomes matters as much as opportunity“
- January 10, 2014: “Getting Budgets Right This Time“
- December 28, 2013: “I was inspired by Mandela, but mourn the passing of Henry Mutinda Kyatha“
- December 20, 2013: “Reflections On The Health Worker Strike“
- December 14, 2013: “National debate on division of revenue or semi-coherent ramblings?“
- December 13, 2013: “Where We Have Erred On Revenue Sharing“
- November 16, 2013: “New rules to support Public Finance Act welcome, but still no public input“
- October 11, 2013: “Kenya: Devolution 101 – Making Sense of County Budgets”
- August 18, 2013: “Ten Questions about My County Budget” this article is complemented by the new tool 16 Key Questions About Your County Budget
- April 19, 2013: “Who Is In Charge Of The Devolution Process?”
- Mar 28, 2013: “Kenya’s Devolution of Power and Resources”
- Mar 23, 2013:“Don’t just give us results, show us that they were arrived at transparently”
- Mar 16, 2013: “It’s here! The challenge of devolution”
- Mar 9, 2013: “No roads, no water: No rocket science needed to define marginalisation”
- Feb 2, 2013: “There’s need to clarify devolution roles”
- Feb 25, 2012: “Constitution: Single deadlines allowing old guard to subvert the transition”
- Feb 18, 2012: “Doctors’ strike: When govts cut off flow of information, they get gangrene”
- Feb 11, 2012: “PowerPoint or lecture notes, the flow of knowledge must not be just one way”
- Feb 4, 2012: “Uganda’s peasantry deserved proper political parties, all they got was NGOs”
- Jan 29, 2012: LAKIN: Hearings drown participants in deluge of data
- Jan 22, 2012: LAKIN: Lesson taxmen can learn from the harambee
- Jan 15, 2012: JASON: What to learn from JM Kariuki
- Jan 8, 2012: LAKIN: The coming challenges of devolution
- Jan 1 , 2012: JASON: Monetary sans political union didn’t add up in Europe
- Dec 24, 2011: Dance around Goliath, yes certainly — but do remember to be wise”
- Dec 17, 2011: “Possible scenario: Same-sex marriage in Kenya before political federation”
- Dec 10, 2011: “November is the cruellest month, breeding contempt in the drowned land”
- Dec 4, 2011: LAKIN: Bringing citizens into decision-making
- Nov 27, 2011: “Occupy budgets: How citizen agency is opening govts to scrutiny globally”
- Nov 20, 2011: “Public in budget-making? You get wish lists”
- Nov 13, 2011: “As Greece burns, EAC mandarins fiddle with plans for currency union”
- Nov 6, 2011: LAKIN: EAC industrial policy needs debate
- Oct 30, 2011: LAKIN: Universal health care’s a sound idea
- Oct 23, 2011: “Mo Ibrahim’s index and the inexact science”
- Oct 16, 2011: “Where ignorant armies clash by night…”
- Oct 9, 2011: LAKIN: Political agenda is too important to be left to politicians
- Oct 2, 2011: “Those govts that involve citizens in policy will prosper”
- Sep 25, 2011: “Treasury-county spat over public finance is about real world issues”
- Sep 14, 2011: “How parliamentary budget offices can transform public spending in EA”
Videos
- Monies to the County: Why Governors Insist on a 45% Fund Allocation (KTN Kenya, September 2014)
- Jason Lakin is interviewed about Kenya governors’ insistence that counties receive a 45% allocation in revenue sharing.
- County Allocation Analysis: The Facts and Fiction on the County Allocation (KTN Kenya, September 2014)
- Jason Lakin discusses issues related to county allocations in Kenya.
- Stricter Fiscal Management Needed in Kenya’s Budget (CNBC Africa, June 2014)
- Jason Lakin discusses what to expect in the second year of Kenya’s devolved government.
- Over Half of 2013/14 Budget Allocation on Development May Not Have Been Spent (NTV, May 2014)
- Jason Lakin speaks about the lack of spending on development despite increasing budget allocations
- Can Devolution Succeed in Kenya?
- Jason Lakin, IBP Senior Program Officer and Research Fellow, appeared on CNBC to discuss whether devolution in Kenya is working.
- Presupuesto Ciudadano (“Public Budget”) (“Pesos y contrapesos” (Checks and Balances), June 2013
- Helena Hofbauer, IBP’s Director of Partnership Development and Innovation, appeared on the program to discuss the relevance of public budgets for government transparency and citizen participation.
- “OBI Results,” MyVideoGe (Georgia), November 16, 2010
- Las diez faltantes (“The Ten Missing Ones”) (Fundar, November 2010)
- This video is part of a campaign known as “Las diez faltantes” (“The Ten Missing Ones”) to bring attention to the Mexican government’s spending priorities during the economic crisis. In 2009 the government spent 4,927.7 million pesos on official advertising – 501 percent more than in 2006, and more than the entire expenditure of the Ministry of Labor in the same year. To highlight the impact of government spending decisions, the Mexican nongovernmental organization Fundar outlined ten missing priorities to improve the use of public funds for healthcare and medication, increase spending on AIDS treatment, reduce out-of-pocket costs in healthcare, and increase the number of clinics and hospitals.
- ¿Que pasa con mi dinero? (“What Happened With My Money?”) (Fundar, October 2010)
- This documentary – filmed in Mexico – defines budget transparency according to Mexican public officials, civil society experts, academics, and citizens. It illustrates what can be done with budget information and presents a brief account of the current state of budget transparency in the country. This documentary, currently only available in Spanish, will soon have English subtitles.
- “Bulgaria Is Between Argentina and Uganda on Budget Transparency” (EBF Business TV, Bulgaria, 20 October 2010)
- “Hay que aumentar la edad jubilatoria en forma gradual,” (Asteriscos TV, Argentina, 19 October 2010)
- Open Budget Survey 2010, Nader Tadros from the International Budget Partnership on The Global (Arabic), (Al Hurra, 19 October 2010)
- Select the October 19 episode and forward to about the middle of the broadcast)
- “Ãndice de presupuesto abierto,” (18 October 2010)
- The IBP Presents the Findings of the Ask Your Government (AYG) Initiative at the Global Maternal Health Conference (Plenary 3 Video on Wednesday 1 September 2010, minutes 25:24-40:01)
- Watch the International Budget Partnership presentation on the findings of the Ask Your Government (AYG) Initiative at the Global Maternal Health Conference in New Delhi, India. The AYG initiative was carried out in over 80 countries by almost 100 partnering organizations to request specific budget information directly related to maternal health interventions. While governments’ responses varied widely, the overwhelming majority did not provide substantive information to their citizens. Furthermore, 11 countries with the highest maternal mortality rates in the world kept silent and ignored the requests posed by their citizens. In Nigeria, for example, information related to life-saving drugs was classified as “sensitive” and “controversial,” in Yemen it was declared “private,” and in Tajikistan the researcher was told “not to bother the Minister with such request.”
- “It’s Our Money. Where’s It Gone?” (September 2009)
- IBP’s video case study that shows how IBP partner organization, MUHURI, uses “Social Audits” to involve communities in Mombasa, Kenya, in monitoring budgets and holding their government accountable for managing the public’s money and meeting the needs of the poor.
- “Open Budget Index: Kenya Above Average in Budgetary Preparations,” (NTV, Kenya, 12 February 2009)
- Budget Transparency Gap on Voice of America’s In Focus (February 2009)
- Foriegn Exchange TV – IBP Director Warren Krafchik on Open Budget Index 2008 (February 2009)
- “Key South East Asian Countries Rank Low in Budget Transparency,” (VOA News.com, 8 February 2009)
- “U.S. Ranks High in Transparency over Most Countries,” (Federal News Radio, United States, 8 November 2010)
- “Ghana scores 54% in 2010 Open Budget Index,” (Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, 27 October 2010)
- “Fiji Ranks Poorly in ‘Open Budget’ Report,” (Radio Australia, 26 October 2010)