Empowering Citizens through Budget Transparency in the North-West and Adamawa Regions
Citizens often lack information on the use of public funds. They are usually left out of allocation decisions and do not have opportuni¬ties to provide adequate and timely feedback on the use of scarce resources. Transparency in budgetary processes...
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okr-10986-201312021-04-23T14:03:53Z Empowering Citizens through Budget Transparency in the North-West and Adamawa Regions Agarwal, Sanjay BUDGET TRANSPARENCY CERTIFICATION CERTIFICATION SCHEME CIVIC EDUCATION CIVIL SOCIETY CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION COMPLAINT CORRUPT CURRICULUM EXAMINATION FEES EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURES FACILITATORS FINANCIAL INFORMATION FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HIGH SCHOOL HOME ECONOMICS ILLITERACY INITIATIVE JOURNALISTS LEARNING MEDIA MISAPPROPRIATED FUNDS MISAPPROPRIATIONS OPENNESS PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PUBLIC BUDGET PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURES PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC INVESTMENT PUBLIC MEETINGS RADIO REGISTRATION FEES RETURN SCHOOL CURRICULUM SCHOOL HEADMASTERS SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL STUDENTS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY STAKEHOLDERS TAX TAX COLLECTIONS TEACHER TRANSPARENCY Citizens often lack information on the use of public funds. They are usually left out of allocation decisions and do not have opportuni¬ties to provide adequate and timely feedback on the use of scarce resources. Transparency in budgetary processes reduces opportu¬nities for wasteful and corrupt spending. As a consequence, and because it can increase trust in authorities and lead to enhanced tax collections, budget transparency could increase resources avail¬able to fight poverty. Therefore, with support from the World Bank, two regions in Cameroon (the North-West and Adamawa) piloted an initiative to promote greater budget transparency with three objectives: simplification, analysis, and disclosure of budgets at multiple levels (national, regional, divisional, municipal, school, and health center); awareness and capacity-building of government officials and local/regional institutions to promote public dialogue about public expenditures by encouraging demand-side governance; and documentation and dissemination of activities. In both the regions, steering committees under the chairman¬ship of their governors spearheaded and coordinated the activities under the initiative. Two local nongovernmental organizations with expertise in social accountability approaches facilitated the community mobilization and budget dissemination process. 2014-09-15T20:48:37Z 2014-09-15T20:48:37Z 2013-06 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/19909105/cameroon-budget-transparency-initiative-empowering-citizens-through-budget-transparency-north-west-adamawa-regions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20131 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Cameroon |
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BUDGET TRANSPARENCY CERTIFICATION CERTIFICATION SCHEME CIVIC EDUCATION CIVIL SOCIETY CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION COMPLAINT CORRUPT CURRICULUM EXAMINATION FEES EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURES FACILITATORS FINANCIAL INFORMATION FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HIGH SCHOOL HOME ECONOMICS ILLITERACY INITIATIVE JOURNALISTS LEARNING MEDIA MISAPPROPRIATED FUNDS MISAPPROPRIATIONS OPENNESS PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PUBLIC BUDGET PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURES PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC INVESTMENT PUBLIC MEETINGS RADIO REGISTRATION FEES RETURN SCHOOL CURRICULUM SCHOOL HEADMASTERS SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL STUDENTS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY STAKEHOLDERS TAX TAX COLLECTIONS TEACHER TRANSPARENCY |
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BUDGET TRANSPARENCY CERTIFICATION CERTIFICATION SCHEME CIVIC EDUCATION CIVIL SOCIETY CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION COMPLAINT CORRUPT CURRICULUM EXAMINATION FEES EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURES FACILITATORS FINANCIAL INFORMATION FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HIGH SCHOOL HOME ECONOMICS ILLITERACY INITIATIVE JOURNALISTS LEARNING MEDIA MISAPPROPRIATED FUNDS MISAPPROPRIATIONS OPENNESS PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PUBLIC BUDGET PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURES PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC INVESTMENT PUBLIC MEETINGS RADIO REGISTRATION FEES RETURN SCHOOL CURRICULUM SCHOOL HEADMASTERS SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL STUDENTS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY STAKEHOLDERS TAX TAX COLLECTIONS TEACHER TRANSPARENCY Agarwal, Sanjay Empowering Citizens through Budget Transparency in the North-West and Adamawa Regions |
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Citizens often lack information on
the use of public funds. They are usually left out of
allocation decisions and do not have opportuni¬ties to
provide adequate and timely feedback on the use of scarce
resources. Transparency in budgetary processes reduces
opportu¬nities for wasteful and corrupt spending. As a
consequence, and because it can increase trust in
authorities and lead to enhanced tax collections, budget
transparency could increase resources avail¬able to fight
poverty. Therefore, with support from the World Bank, two
regions in Cameroon (the North-West and Adamawa) piloted an
initiative to promote greater budget transparency with three
objectives: simplification, analysis, and disclosure of
budgets at multiple levels (national, regional, divisional,
municipal, school, and health center); awareness and
capacity-building of government officials and local/regional
institutions to promote public dialogue about public
expenditures by encouraging demand-side governance; and
documentation and dissemination of activities. In both the
regions, steering committees under the chairman¬ship of
their governors spearheaded and coordinated the activities
under the initiative. Two local nongovernmental
organizations with expertise in social accountability
approaches facilitated the community mobilization and budget
dissemination process. |
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Publications & Research :: Brief |
| author |
Agarwal, Sanjay |
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Agarwal, Sanjay |
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Agarwal, Sanjay |
| title |
Empowering Citizens through Budget Transparency in the North-West and Adamawa Regions |
| title_short |
Empowering Citizens through Budget Transparency in the North-West and Adamawa Regions |
| title_full |
Empowering Citizens through Budget Transparency in the North-West and Adamawa Regions |
| title_fullStr |
Empowering Citizens through Budget Transparency in the North-West and Adamawa Regions |
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Empowering Citizens through Budget Transparency in the North-West and Adamawa Regions |
| title_sort |
empowering citizens through budget transparency in the north-west and adamawa regions |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/19909105/cameroon-budget-transparency-initiative-empowering-citizens-through-budget-transparency-north-west-adamawa-regions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20131 |
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