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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Agarwal, Sanjay
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
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
Online Access: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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Summary: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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