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IBP Brief 3: Community Budget Hearings: An Innovative Approach to Civil Society
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Albert van Zyl
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Jun 23, 2008 07:00 PDT
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We welcome all ideas for future Budget Briefs and comments on existing
Briefs. Please contact Albert van Zyl (alber-@gmail.com) with
proposals.
Brief No3: Community Budget Hearings: An Innovative Approach to Civil
Society Budget Advocacy.
This brief was written by Vivek Ramkumar at the International Budget
Project.
Budget advocacy groups have often struggled to involve the wider public
directly in budgeting processes; instead, they frequently end up speaking to
the government on behalf of poor and disadvantaged communities. This has
limited their impact.
Budget hearings at the local level can give hundreds of thousands of
citizens - perhaps even millions - the opportunity to participate directly
in budget-making and budget evaluation processes. If budget advocacy
organizations promote the adoption of these systems successfully, they can
truly change the nature of governance in their countries. Challenging as it
may be, this is the price that budget advocacy organizations will have to
pay before they can truly claim to be promoting transparency,
accountability, and citizen participation in budgeting!
This brief discusses innovative examples from Brazil and India of strategies
to help ensure that citizens directly participate in budget processes at the
local level.
Click <http://www.internationalbudget.org/resources/briefs/index.htm> here
to download the Brief or email info <mailto:mar-@cbpp.org> @cbpp.org if you
would like us to email the PDF text to you. Note 3 est aussi disponible en
Francais <http://www.internationalbudget.org/resources/briefs/brief3fre.htm>
et Espagnol
<http://www.internationalbudget.org/resources/briefs/brief3spa.htm> .
We are still accepting proposals for future Budget Briefs and comments on
existing Briefs. Please contact Albert van Zyl (
<mailto:alber-@gmail.com> alber-@gmail.com) in this regard
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