Fiscal openness encompasses a wide range of practices and interventions aimed at promoting transparency, participation, and accountability. It is the most popular policy area in OGP.
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Every year, governments collect and spend billions of taxpayer funds to pay for services such as education and healthcare. Citizens have a right to know how their governments are collecting and where they are spending their money.
Openness across the budget and fiscal cycle – through transparency, public participation, and legislative oversight – allows citizens to hold their government accountable and reduce waste. Over time, this can ensure that government spending reflects the people’s interests and needs.
Fiscal openness has been one of the mainstays of the open government movement. Moving forward, improving public participation and accountability – areas with the most potential for results – will be the new frontier. This is especially important for monitoring the use of emergency and recovery pandemic funds.
OGP works with partners to promote innovation in open budgets, scale commitments on citizen participation and make fiscal openness the global norm.
This article was originally published on the International Budget Partnership’s website. Read the original blog here. This pandemic is far from over, but in order to keep moving toward recovery and renewal, we need to assess how countries are faring with relief spending-- are they being…
Leia em portugues aqui. The greatest lesson that São Paulo will carry from its second open government action plan is that collaboration matters and is an essential tool for effective answers to public challenges. In 2020, social participation during the…
La mayor lección que São Paulo aprendió de su segundo plan de acción de gobierno abierto es que la colaboración importa y que es una herramienta fundamental para encontrar respuestas a los retos públicos. En 2020, la participación social durante…
Growing debt over the last two decades has left many resource-rich African countries on the verge of debt crises. Read how open government approaches can help.
El endeudamiento de los países, acrecentado en las últimas dos décadas, ha dejado a muchos países africanos ricos en recursos al borde de una crisis de endeudamiento. Desde principios de los años 2000, los países africanos han adquirido cada vez…
The COVID-19 pandemic has weakened economies, increased public debt, and exacerbated existing inequalities. Governments across the world are in the…
2020, Guidance Document, Web Page
Snapshot of global progress and member-level examples of fiscal openness work in OGP
2019, Document, PDF
This blog originally appeared on the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) website here. This post is the first in…
2017, Perspective, Web Page
, Outbound Link, Web Page
As part of the Open Response + Open Recovery Digital Forum, OGP, Open Contracting Partnership, and International Budget Partnership hosted a…
2020, , Web Page
The International Budget Partnership shares why accountability is crucial in COVID-19 fiscal responses.
2021, Outbound Link, Web Page
Croatia has been working on increasing transparency of political party and election financing through commitments in their second and third action plans. Using the information provided in ...
Leia em portugues aqui. The greatest lesson that São Paulo will carry from its second open government action plan is that collaboration matters and is an essential tool for effective answers to public challenges. In 2020, social participation during the…
La mayor lección que São Paulo aprendió de su segundo plan de acción de gobierno abierto es que la colaboración importa y que es una herramienta fundamental para encontrar respuestas a los retos públicos. En 2020, la participación social durante…
Growing debt over the last two decades has left many resource-rich African countries on the verge of debt crises. Read how open government approaches can help.
El endeudamiento de los países, acrecentado en las últimas dos décadas, ha dejado a muchos países africanos ricos en recursos al borde de una crisis de endeudamiento. Desde principios de los años 2000, los países africanos han adquirido cada vez…
Read how a user-friendly open budget portal in South Africa empowers citizens to advance social change.
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Read about Costa Rica's commitment to improve citizens' access to justice information through a public website. This commitment is featured in the "What's in the 2019 Action Plans" publication.
Lea cómo Costa Rica planea mejorar el acceso de los ciudadanos a la información sobre justicia a través de un sitio web público. Este compromiso aparece en la publicación " Qué hay en los planes de acción de 2019".
Découvrez comment le Costa Rica prévoit d'améliorer l'accès des citoyens à l'information sur la justice. Cet engagement est présenté dans la publication « Contenu des plans d'action 2019 ».
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