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Our money, Our Responsibility: A citizens' guide to monitoring government expenditures
2008
Vivek Ramkumar
International Budget Project
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. Hard copies of this publication are available from IBP. Requests should be addressed to .
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