How does budget transparency affect people’s lives

• Access To Budget Information Empowers Citizens In India
  For years, many government officials in India operated in a climate of secrecy, allowing corruption to flourish and public funds to be wasted and misspent. Government engineers, accountants, administrators, project supervisors, auditors, and even anti-corruption officials were often entirely
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• Opening Budgets in Mexico Helps Open Care Options for New Mothers
  While the Mexican government has long voiced its commitment to improving healthcare and decreasing maternal mortality, the death rate hovered at approximately 6.2 women’s deaths per 10,000 live births for more than a decade (from 1990 to 2003). Poor women in rural areas were
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• Social Audits in Kenya: Budget Transparency and Accountability
  The activities of Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI), a civil society organization (CSO) based in Mombasa, Kenya, demonstrate the significant role budget transparency plays in improving accountability.  MUHURI’s work also shows how public engagement in the budget process can strengthen
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• Taking the State to Court: CELS Uses Strategic Litigation to Access Public Information and Advance Human Rights in Argentina
  The Open Budget Survey 2008, an independent analysis of national budget transparency and accountability in 85 countries, shows that governments around the world withhold a substantial amount of information about how they collect and spend public funds. In many countries governments also provide
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• Resource Dependence and Budget Transparency
  Are natural resource abundance and opaque budgets inextricably linked? The Open Budget Survey 2008 — a comprehensive evaluation of budget transparency in 85 countries — finds that resource-dependent countries tend to be less transparent than countries that are not resource dependent.
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• School Building Fund Provides Lessons on Community Mobilization in Uganda
  Nearly ten years ago, the government of Uganda established the Universal Primary Education Program, designed to boost classroom attendance and increase literacy and education rates throughout the country. In less than a decade, the policy generated dramatic results, more than doubling the number of
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