International Budget Partnership
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26 May 21Widespread lapses in accountability plagued the global response to Covid-19 and recovery efforts will require far stronger oversight, the International Budget Partnership has found.
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4 Dec 20Claire Schouten and Vivek Ramkumar from the International Budget Partnership give examples of how cooperation between spending watchdogs and civil society have brought benefits for people.
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12 Nov 20Supreme audit institutions face huge pressure to ensure government spending advances the public interest and aids progress of countries’ development, and need help to make their oversight full and...
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3 Jul 20Black Lives Matter protests show there is a fiscal element to social justice, and should force governments to think about how to involve marginalised people in budget-setting, a transparency...
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2 Jun 20Budget transparency is more important than ever amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but most governments fail to reach a decent standard of openness, an expert and advocate for accountability has told PFF.
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27 Sep 19Governments underspent by nearly 10% of their promised budgets on average over an eight-year period, according to a study.
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18 Mar 19Governments are becoming increasingly interested in giving the public more of a say over budgeting, the policy director of a not-for-profit corporation has told PF International.
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1 Oct 18Audit reports can be used as a tool to enhance accountability and tackle corruption if governments take their recommendations seriously, according to a senior policy analyst.