PHA-Exch> IBP Publication: Citizen's Guide to Monitoring Governmental Expenditures

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Nicholas Lusiani nlusiani at escr-net.org

   This message is being sent on behalf of the International Budget Project
(IBP), Washington DC, US.

 The International Budget Project (IBP) is pleased to announce the release
of its latest publication, "Our Money, Our Responsibility: A Citizens' Guide
to Monitoring Government Expenditures."  This Guide documents pioneering
methodologies used by civil society organizations around the developing
world to hold their governments to account for the use of public resources.


 Specific methodologies examined by the Guide include social audits, citizen
report cards, public expenditure tracking surveys, procurement monitoring
tools, and participatory auditing tools.  These methodologies are considered
in detailed case studies presenting the work of 17 organizations from 12
countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

 The Guide will enable readers to gain familiarity with the typical
processes followed by national-level governments during the execution of
budgets, management of procurements, measurement of impact achieved by
expenditures, and oversight of budget expenditures through audits and
legislative supervision.  For each of these processes, the Guide provides
practical tools and techniques that readers can use to monitor the results
achieved by government expenditures.

 This Guide is ideal for any organization that is interested in
understanding how governments manage their expenditures and that wants to
adapt for use in its own unique country and organizational contexts
methodologies that have been tested and proven by other organizations.

 The Guide can be directly downloaded in either PDF or html format from IBP's
website at
http://www.internationalbudget.org/resources/expenditure/index.htm.   Hard
copies of this publication are available from IBP through requests addressed
to info at internationalbudget.org.

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