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today: Gear up for your own
#DataRallyFromHome and #BetterBudget
Dataquest!
So far, 10 countries have
confirmed to join these fun and
meaningful network activities in
2021! Host any of these two
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GIFT
Blog: Virtual Exchange
on Budget Transparency
Portals, Open Data and
Digital Tools
February
8, 2021
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More
than 80 experts from various
ministries of finance and
partners from sub-national
governments and global cities
such as Guanajuato, Mexico,
and Bogotá, Colombia;
Dominican Republic, Ecuador
and Uruguay, joined a
pioneering international
exchange on budget
transparency portals, open
data, and digital tools in the
context of the COVID-19
pandemic, which was
facilitated by the GIFT
network last
February 8.
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Read
about our key insights from
the exchange and download all
the speakers’ presentations
through this GIFT
blogpost.
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Knowledge
Product: Comparative
analysis of international
practices and
recommendations to improve
transparency, quality, and
impact of public spending
in Chile
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Mainstreaming
key fiscal openness
concepts, including
GIFT’s
Principles of
Public
Participation in
Fiscal Policies through
a benchmarking study
of practices from
Australia, Canada,
Mexico, New Zealand,
Sierra Leone, South
Korea and the United
Kingdom, the GIFT
Coordination Team
published a
report highlighting
specific policy
recommendations to
improve
transparency,
quality, and impact
of public spending
for the Chilean
national government.
The analysis, which
can be useful to
countries facing
similar challenges
in opening up its
national budget,
sought to answer
fundamental guiding
questions on 1) how
to improve
existing public
participation
instruments
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and 2)
how to measure the results of
spending from a perspective
that is relevant for users and
beneficiaries of public goods
and services.
The report was produced by
GIFT’s Coordination Team with
the support of the
Inter-American Development
Bank and the Multi-Donor Fund
of the World Bank of the Open
Government Alliance. Download
the full report here.
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Lead
Stewards Meeting: 2021
workplan and new
exciting discussions
on GIFT membership
February
16, 2021
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The
GIFT
Lead Stewards
kicked off its first meeting
of the year with an exchange
on a lineup of impactful
activities planned for 2021
and a stronger vision
towards consolidating GIFT
as a cohesive global action
network of champions through
peer-learning and closer
collaboration. Exciting
discussions on opening up up
new ways of engaging with our
network for
new actors and other
strategic considerations in
moving forward were also
taken up during the meeting.
More details will be
announced soon about
our plans for partnership
expansion, so stay tuned!
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You
have spoken and we
listened: Results of
the GIFT community
survey is now out!
February
28, 2021
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The GIFT
community has
spoken, and we
listened! Your feedback has
laid down a good vision for
our work in 2021. Find out
more about the results of
our Community Survey in this
blogpost.
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Mexico:
Ministry of Finance
and civil society
collaborate on video
tutorials on tools
for open spending
data analysis
February
4, 2021
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Mexico’s
Ministry of Finance joins
forces with GIFT’s
two civil society stewards
in the country, CIEP
and Fundar,
to launch a set of four (4)
tutorials that provide
easy guidance in analyzing
open format databases from Mexico’s
fiscal transparency portal
and customizing specific
COVID19-related spending
information by non-expert
data users.
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Costa
Rica: Ministry of
Finance launches new
tools to view National
Budget data
February
8, 2021
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With
the aim of making
information on the national
budget more transparent, and
encouraging the use and
monitoring of budget data,
the Ministry of Finance of
Costa Rica has launched
new “Open Budget” tools
available at the Ministerio
de Hacienda website last
February 8. The tools
provide citizens access
to national budget datasets
in open data format, which
can be used to
generate graphs, tables,
charts and other analyses
on expenses,
sources of income and the
evolution of the country’s
fiscal information over the
years.
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Mongolia:
new interactive
Citizens Budget goes
live
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Mongolia’s
Ministry of Finance has now
launched their new online
interactive Citizens
Budget which
highlights information of
expenditures within
economic, administrative,
and functional budget
classifications, as well as,
detailed revenues from 2019,
2020 and 2021. Developed
through a user-centered
design approach, the online
platform features
explanatory videos,
interactive visualizations,
as well as, visual design
and infographics that aim to
attract more citizens to
access and use budget data.
This project was supported
by the World Bank, the
European Union and GIFT’s
Coordination team as part of
the Strengthening Governance
in Mongolia project.
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Australia:
new Online
Transparency Portal
now up
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Australia’s
new online platform, transparency.gov.au,
is now greatly improving
access to government data in
the country. Developed by
the Australian Department of
Finance, the tool provides a
one-stop-shop for planning
and performance information
from all Australian
government entities at the
central level, including
financial and non-financial
institutions. The portal,
which was piloted from 2017
to 2018, aims to become the
single definitive source of
publicly available
Commonwealth corporate
information, providing easy
access to such information
for Parliament and the
public. The platform allows
citizens to download key
public documents, compare
and visualize public data,
and even inspect key
financial sustainability
ratios across different
government agencies.
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South
Africa: 2021 Budget
is now out!
February
24 2021
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UNICEF
hosts webinar on
protecting and
transforming social
spending through the
Covid-19 crisis
February
25, 2021
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| GIFT
Lead Stewards and
partners convened in the
UNICEF-hosted virtual session on
Protecting and Transforming
Social Spending through the
Covid-19 Crisis last February
25, where International Budget
Partnership’s (IBP) Vivek
Ramkumar moderated a panel
discussion on Fiscal
Transparency and Transparency in
Social Sector Budgets with Ed
Olowo-Okere, Director of the
World Bank’s Governance Global
Practice, Sara Eid of Egypt’s
Ministry of Finance, and Zukiswa
Kota, Head of the Monitoring and
Advocacy Program of the Public
Service Accountability Monitor
(PSAM) in South Africa. The
session featured reflections on
the challenge of the COVID-19
pandemic and the associated
economic crisis to social
spending and discussed solutions
to protect social spending and
extend sustainable and inclusive
financing during the recovery
phase through enhanced
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Open
Data Charter’s draft
Data Taxonomy for
Pandemic
Preparedness now
available for public
comments
February
25, 2021
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As
a data user and
practitioner, how do you
think data for pandemic
preparedness should be
published?
The Open Data Charter (ODC)
recently published its draft
Pandemic Data Taxonomy for
public comments Building on
feedback from an initial
call to identify high value
Open COVID-19 Data, ODC
structured a set of data
cards, including key data
types related to health
issues, legal and
socioeconomic impacts and
fiscal transparency, within
well-defined data models and
dictionaries. The document,
which was also developed
with inputs from GIFT, is
up for public comments until
March 31st here.
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South
Korea to host the
next Open Government
Partnership Summit
from Dec 13 – 17,
2021
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Annyeonghaseyo!
Marking the
Open Government
Partnership’s
(OGP) 10th
anniversary, the
2021 OGP Global
Summit is set to be
hosted by South
Korea virtually from
December 13-17,
2021. The event will
aim to galvanize the
open government
community with fresh
energy, political
commitment,
evidence, and
support to build a
stronger global
movement for open
government and
democracy. Aligned
with the current
Co-Chair Priorities,
the Summit themes
will be centered on
issues around
anti-corruption,
digital innovation
and governance, and
public participation
and civic space. We
look forward to
participating in
this event and
making it a great
year for Open
Government!
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2020
Global Report on
Public Financial
Management
In
contribution to the
Sustainable
Development Goals
global agenda, the
Public Expenditure and
Financial
Accountability (PEFA)
program has
capitalized on its
extensive database of
PEFA assessments and
produced the first
Global Report on
Public Financial
Management. The
report—which is only
available
online—contains data
visualizations
accompanied by short
analyses and country
examples. Read the
full online report here.
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Results-based
budgeting with a
gender
perspective: the
cases from
Argentina, Brazil
and Guanajuato
In
this study, the
European Union’s
Programme for Social
Cohesion (EUROsociAL)
features
systematization of the
country experiences
in results-based
budgeting with a
gender perspective in
Latin America and the
Caribbean. It delves
into the cases of
Argentina, Guanajuato
and Brazil, and
provides
recommendations to
improve identification
and marking of
gender-sensitive
public spending that
could be adapted
to specific country
contexts. Download the
report here.
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Corruption
Perceptions Index
2020
Find
out how different
countries fare in
terms of their
perceived levels of
public sector
corruption through the
Corruption Perception
Index 2020 Report. The
survey uses a scale of
zero to 100, where
zero is highly corrupt
and 100 is very clean.
Access CPI 2020’s full
results and
interactive tool here.
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Five
tools for reducing
corruption during
COVID-19
In
this World Bank blog,
IBP’s Warren Krafchik
and Leslie Lang Tsai
of the Chandler
Foundation explores
evidence-based tools
that international
institutions,
governments, civil
society, and
philanthropy can use
to help governments
increase trust,
strengthen their
management of public
funds and with that,
improve their response
to the current
crisis.
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Re-thinking
tax policy for the
post-pandemic
world
As
the world looks ahead
towards the end of the
Covid-19 crisis,
whenever that might
come, it is time to
reflect on the role
taxes can play in
rebuilding our
economies, argue
Pascal Saint-Amans and
David Bradbury of the
OECD in this Public
Finance Focus blogpost.
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