Why is the International Budget Partnership focusing its efforts on budget issues?
The general lack of information on budget issues and the shortage of information and analysis in widely usable, non-technical forms has seriously hindered the efforts of national and local organizations attempting to participate in the debate on the distribution of national resources. Strengthening budget analysis is therefore an inevitable and integral part of policy work and democracy-building.
The International Budget Partnership collaborates with a large and diverse network of civil society organizations around the world to fight poverty and improve governance by reforming government budget systems and influencing budget policies. At the heart of this work are efforts to make government budgeting more transparent and participatory, more responsive to national priorities, better able to resist corruption, and more efficient and effective.
In support of this collaboration, the IBP provides technical and financial assistance, comparative research opportunities, information exchange, and peer networking. It does this through the following programs and activities:
