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Just Released! New IBP Case Studies on Civil Society Budget Campaigns 26 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
The IBP contracted independent researchers to follow four civil society budget campaigns over several years — What did we learn? The IBP’s Partnership Initiative developed an innovative package of co...
Now Available! New Budget Briefs on Revenue Sharing in Kenya 20 Aug 2013 | 01:28 am
The International Budget Partnership (IBP) is pleased to announce the publication of two new Budget Briefs: What is Fair? Sharing Resources in Kenya and Fair Play: Inequality Across Kenya’s Counties a...
New Guide Answers 50 Questions for Kenyan County Officials about Public Finance Management 15 Aug 2013 | 01:05 am
A new joint publication by the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) offers guidance on public finance management in Kenya in light...
The IBP Comments on the IMF’s Revisions to the Fiscal Transparency Code 8 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm
The International Budget Partnership (IBP) has submitted comments on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) consultation draft of the Fiscal Transparency Code. The IMF is in the process of revising t...
New Email Addresses for IBP Staff on 9 August 2013! 8 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
We are excited to announce that starting Friday, 9 August IBP staff members will switch to new email addresses ending in @internationalbudget.org. To reach a staff member just use the following conven...
Is There Enough Money? New IBP Budget Brief Presents County-Level Spending Data on Critical Services in Kenya 6 Aug 2013 | 08:47 pm
County governments in Kenya have slowly begun to make 2013/14 budget data available to the public, which allows citizens, civil society organizations, and journalists to see just what their county gov...
The IBP Releases New Book on Open Budgets! 1 Aug 2013 | 11:53 pm
The IBP has worked with numerous experts in the field on case studies, quantitative analyses using Open Budget Index data, and other research that has helped deepen our understanding of the causes and...
New on the Open Budgets Blog: Latin American Commitments to Improve Budget Transparency and Thoughts on the Road from Transparency to Accountability 1 Aug 2013 | 09:15 pm
The Open Budgets Blog features two new posts that focus on important elements for true budget transparency, participation, and accountability: governments’ political will and the mobilization of multi...
Place Your Bets: How Can Publicity and Political Agency Take us from Transparency to Accountability? 31 Jul 2013 | 12:26 pm
This post was written by Albert van Zyl, Research Manager at the International Budget Partnership. In a recent response to an article by Yu and Robinson, the World Bank’s Tiago Peixoto repeats the no...
The IBP on the Relationship between Participation, Accountability, and Transparency in Budget Work 23 Jul 2013 | 11:17 pm
After a recent launch event for the IBP’s new book, Open Budgets: The Political Economy of Transparency, Participation, and Accountability, Overseas Development Institute researcher Rebecca Simson cha...
