By the end of the course, participants will have acquired a deeper understanding and concrete skills around Economic Literacy and Budget Accountability for Governance (ELBAG), using a right-based-approach. They will be able to apply a number of concrete frameworks and tools for analysing and influencing pro-poor budgets at various levels in society, and how that can contribute to more just and democratic governance.

Course Content:

• Key concepts and tools - Budgets and budgeting processes (family, household, public) and examples of what works and what is difficult.
• Rights Based Approaches to Budgeting – ELBAG & Governance
• Methods of Analysing and Monitoring National & Local budgets
• Women's Rights and Gender Budgeting tools
• Budget Advocacy and Community Mobilisation for Democratisation
• The Role of the Media in engaging the state, civil society and the market: challenges and prospects for accountability
• Making Government Accountable – New Economic Models looking at budget relations between spending and revenue
• International political economy and challenges of domestic budgeting

Target Group:

Practitioners working in civil society organisations, government and other development agencies engaged in Governance and Accountability work.

Application forms

• Online application form
• Download the application form