Learning
and sharing experiences
and inspiration at the
launch of the new
Transparency Portal of
Brazil in Brasilia
On June 28th, the Ministry
of Transparency and the
General Comptroller of the
Union (CGU) launched
Brazil’s new Transparency
Portal (www.transparencia.gov.br).
With a new interface,
enhanced accessibility,
responsiveness, search
engine, navigation, and
interactive tables,
integrated pages and
matrixial navigation, the
Portal includes new
information on, for example,
procurement and contracts,
travelling expenses, CGU’s
reports. The Portal is also
now boosted with new tools,
such as social media,
collaboration, QR code,
notifications, open data and
APIs.
The Ministry of
Transparency, with the
participation of Minister
Wagner Rosario and Otávio
Neves and GIFT
support, hosted a workshop
to present the new Portal in
detail for GIFT’s
members and partners,
representatives of
government and civil society
of Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, Dominican
Republic, El Salvador,
Egypt, Guatemala, Liberia,
Mexico, Nigeria, Paraguay,
South Africa, Uruguay and
the USA; as well as
representatives from the
World Bank, the OECD and
IBP, who also shared their
own experiences and plans to
advance fiscal transparency.
Additionally, GIFT held
a specific workshop for the
representatives from South
Africa, Nigeria and Egypt
with the Brazilian Federal
Budget Secretariat –GIFT Lead
Steward— with the presence
of the Secretary George
Soares, to share experiences
in advancing transparency
based on the dialogue with
civil society. The workshop
was enriched with the
outstanding participation of
GIFT
Stewards, INESC (Brazil) and
Fundar (Mexico), and public
participation expert, Daniel
Avelino. GIFT is
grateful to Brazil’s
high-level leadership at the
Federal Budget Secretariat
who dedicated their time to
answer all of South Africa’s
representatives’ questions
and doubts about how to
improve the cooperation
among the Treasury and civil
society to develop a portal
that responds to users’
needs.
After the workshops’
discussions and collective
learning and inspiration,
and following IBP´s and GIFT´s invitation,
several MoF have expresses
their interest to engage in
a pilot on public
participation in the budget
at the national level,
including Argentina, Brazil,
Guatemala, Egypt, Liberia,
Nigeria and South Africa.
Check out all workshop
materials and presentations
here.
#Cuentas
Claras conference Transparent
Government – Leveraging
Private Sector
Partnerships Panama
City, June 13-14
GIFT’s
Network Director
participated in a panel to
discuss technological
innovations in enhancing
transparency, combating
corruption, and stopping
illicit financial flows in
the #CuentasClaras
conference in Panama City.
Organized jointly by the
World Bank Group and the
Government of Panama, the
conference convened
high-level government
officials and policy
makers, representatives of
multilateral financial
institutions, experts in
governance, civil society
leaders, and journalists
from Latin America and the
Caribbean and the rest of
the world to promote the
exchange of ideas on the
policies, strategies and
institutional arrangements
necessary to address the
challenges of enhancing
transparency and
accountability in the
public sector to mobilize
private financing for
development and promote
economic growth in the
region. In the Panama City
Conference as well as in
every public finance
forum, it is increasingly
being recognized that
civil society
organizations and public
participation are a
fundamental element in the
discussion on the use of
public resources.
UPCOMING
GIFTAt
the 2018
OGP GLOBAL SUMMIT in Tbilisi,
Georgia
Check
out the activities that
the GIFT
network
has prepared for you at
the upcoming OGP Global
Summit in Tbilisi,
Georgia…
IT
for Citizen Engagement
in Service Delivery
Workshop on July 17th
We will start with a side
event on Tuesday July
17th, where members and
partners in this will share
experiences on the impact of
digitalization in engaging
citizens in the provision of
public goods and services,
and country initiatives to
increase public
participation through the
increased use and
optimization of IT.
Looking at the examples
of Brazil, Georgia, Mexico,
and Paraguay, participants
will also discuss recent
efforts in linking budget
open data formats (Open
Fiscal Data Package) and the
Open Contracting Data
Standard (Procurement
process in open data
formats) for significant
improvement in fiscal
transparency.
Representatives from
civil society and ministries
of finance will share how
the use of information
technologies has allowed a
better provision of public
services, with an enhanced
engagement from the
beneficiaries. At the end of
the workshop, participants
will have more clarity on
the possibilities,
advantages and risks of
using IT for participation
and public service delivery.
See you on Tuesday July
17th at 3:30pm
at #1, 26 May Square,
Tbilisi!
As part of the OGP Global
Summit agenda, members and
partners of the GIFT
network
will feature a session to
share experience and
questions on the impact of
digitalization in engaging
citizens in the provision of
public services and goods.
In many countries, such as
Colombia, Chile, Brazil,
Mexico, Georgia, Ukraine,
and Paraguay, governments
have used open data and
digitalization as means to
improve the impact on the
delivery of public services.
In this session,
representatives from civil
society and ministries of
finance will share how the
use of information
technologies has allowed a
better provision of public
services, with an enhanced
engagement from the
beneficiaries. We will also
hear from the winners of the
#DatosenlaCalle Rally from
Chile, Colombia or Mexico,
as well as representatives
from the governments of
Brazil, Georgia, Hungary,
Paraguay and Mexico.
See you on Thursday July
19, 11:00 – 12:00 at the
Funicular: Underwheel 2,
Mtatsminda Plateau in
Tbilisi!
High-Level
Regional Dialogue on
Budget Transparency
and Participation, at
Tiblisi on July 18th
IBP and the Ministry of
Finance of Georgia, with
USAid and World Bank
support, are hosting a
high-level dialogue on
budget transparency and
participation, with the
presence of high level
officials from the
governments of Georgia,
Macedonia, Azerbaijan,
Ukraine, Armenia, Bosnia
Herzegovina and Canada, in
dialogue with civil society
organizations from the
region. This meeting is a
continuation of a series of
efforts in the Central,
Eastern and South-Eastern
European region, to foster
fiscal transparency and
participation, of which GIFT
stewards has been actively
involved (World Bank-IMF
Spring meetings, PEMPAL
meeting in Austria, OECD-SBO
meeting in Zagreb, and
upcoming GIFT General
Stewards meeting in Portugal
in October).
GIFT
General Stewards Meeting,
October 15-17 in Cascais,
Portugal
With the generosity of
the Municipality of Cascais,
this year’s General Stewards
Meeting will be held in this
beautiful Portuguese city on
October 15-17. More to come…
NEW
RESOURCES
SHCP/GIFT
webinar on Open Data now
online! (Spanish)
COMMUNITY
WALL
New
Head of PEFA
Congratulations
to Jens K.
Kristensen,
recently appointed
new head of PEFA. We
look forward to
collaborating soon!
IBP/
GIFT piece one of the 5
most cited articles in
2017 according to the
World Bank!
