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“To protect the Treasury from being defrauded, let all money be issued openly in front of the whole city, and let copies of the accounts be deposited in various wards.”

(Aristotle, The Politics).

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Tools to hold your government accountable

Our Money, Our Responsibility: A Citizens' Guide to Monitoring Government Expenditures
This Guide offers an overview of government budget implementation processes and provides practical, tested tools that can be used by civil society organizations interested in monitoring government expenditures.
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English | Bahasa | French NEW!
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A Guide to Tax Work for NGOs
The guide is intended to help demystify revenue policy issues and give civil society budget groups the tools they need to influence revenue policy in the same way that they have been able to influence expenditure policy.
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How can Civil Society Organizations monitor Public Budgets?
The guide is a comprehensive description of the basic principles of applied budget work, examples of useful resources, and best practices.

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How to use Budget Analysis to Advance Human Rights?

The guide was prepared by Fundar, the International Budget Partnership, and the International Human Rights Internship Program.

Spanish | Indonesian NEW!

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Expanding Collaboration Between Public Audit Institutions and Civil Society
Overviews of innovative civil society and SAI practices adopted in six countries and analysis of the opportunities for increasing collaboration between civil society organizations and national public audit institutions.

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Can Civil Society add Value to Budget Decision-Making?
A description of the expanding contribution of civil society organizations to public budgets in developing countries.
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Job Opportunity

The IBP is looking for a training/technical assistance provider. Read more here.

IBP in the News NEW!

In September 2009 Civicus, an international organization dedicated to nurturing the foundation, growth, and protection of citizen action throughout the world, published a special edition of its e-Civicus newsletter in honor of World Democracy Day. Read an article from IBP on the role of ordinary citizens in holding African governments accountable for managing the public’s money.

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Budget Brief No.8

Quantity Without Quality? Rethinking Education Goals
by Ruth Carlitz. Read more here.

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Themes

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Just Released: “It’s Our Money. Where’s It Gone?” NEW!

Today the IBP releases “It’s Our Money. Where’s It Gone?”—its new documentary film on the work one of its partners, MUHURI (Muslims for Human Rights), is doing to involve communities directly in monitoring the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) in Mombasa, Kenya. See how MUHURI uses “Social Audits” to involve communities in monitoring budgets and holding their government accountable for managing the public’s money and meeting the needs of the poor.

Learning Program NEW!

New on site, IBP Learning Program

Case Studies on the Impact of Budget Work

The IBP and the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex produced in-depth case studies of six established budget groups in Brazil, Croatia, India, Mexico, South Africa, and Uganda. Learn more here.

Publication of the Month

"Many a slip..." Budget Work to Advance the Right to Food

Step-by-step process for analyzing a government’s budget and assessing its compliance with its obligations to fulfill its people’s right to food. The guide-coordinated by IHRIP with substantial input from IBP and other organizations-also contains a section with initiatives in three countries to produce a “right to food budget.”

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