• 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)
• “Índice 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)