From the Open Budgets Blog
In Their Own Words: Reform Champions Speak About Incentives for Fiscal Openness
High-level budget transparency and accountability champions from the governments of Brazil, the Philippines, Mexico, Afghanistan, and South Africa discuss the impacts of the fiscal openness reforms they helped shape, and the challenges met along the way.
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Opening Budgets to Fight Climate Change
Funds intended to address the impacts of climate change come from both international and domestic public and private sources and most are, or will be, managed by governments through domestic budgeting systems. To ensure that those at the greatest risk from the impacts of climate change benefit from these scarce resources, budget transparency and accountability are essential.
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Taxes Matter in Transforming Lives
Civil society budget work that focuses on both sides of the budget — revenues and expenditures — can potentially transform debates over public services from what is possible within existing resources to what is needed to address poverty and inequality.
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New IBP Publication
Tracking Spending on the Sustainable Development Goals: What Have We Learned from the Millennium Development Goals?
This Budget Brief explores how efforts to ensure the success of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can learn from work that was done to monitor how governments were spending public funds to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Drawing on experiences in 11 countries with budget systems that allowed for meaningful tracking of MDG spending, the brief presents good practices and lessons that can help to strengthen accountability for how governments use public resources to achieve the SDGs
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Further Reading From the Field
- Public Financial Management and Health Services Delivery (Overseas Development Institute)
- Active Citizens and Accountable Governments: Three Approaches to Guide our Grants and Learning (Hewlett Foundation)
- Examining the Evolution of Cross-National Fiscal Transparency (The American Review of Public Administration)
- The Current State of Transparency and Participation in Public Finance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative)
Rethinking Strategic Planning
Is it time to ditch the conventional strategic plan in favor of a strategic radar? And what might that look like? Oxfam’s Duncan Green, inspired by an IBP strategic planning session, explores this concept further on his From Poverty to Power blog.
Job Announcements
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