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Cameroon Budget Transparency Initiative : Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Local Councils

From 2011 to 2013, the World Bank-financed Budget Transparency Initiative1 has conducted a number of activities in the North-West and Adamawa Regions to make local council budgets more transparent and accessible to citizens. The pilot project devel...

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Main Authors: Agarwal, Sanjay, Alton, Martin Luis, Bove, Abel, Ngounoue, Victoire, Perrot, Vincent
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
ACCOUNTABILITY
ASSETS
BUDGET LITERACY
BUDGET PROCESS
BUDGET TRANSPARENCY
CITIZEN PARTICIPATION
CIVIL SOCIETY
CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS
CLAIM
COMMUNITY RADIO
DECENTRALIZATION
DISPOSITIONS
EQUIPMENT
EXPENDITURE
EXPENDITURES
INITIATIVE
JOURNALISTS
LAWS
LOCAL AUTHORITIES
MAYORS
MEDIA
MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATIONS
OPENNESS
PUBLIC INVESTMENT
PUBLIC MEETINGS
STAKEHOLDERS
SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY
TAX
TAX REVENUES
TITLE
TRANSPARENCY
VILLAGE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/19909010/cameroon-budget-transparency-initiative-lessons-learned-recommendations-local-councils
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20133
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Summary:From 2011 to 2013, the World Bank-financed Budget Transparency Initiative1 has conducted a number of activities in the North-West and Adamawa Regions to make local council budgets more transparent and accessible to citizens. The pilot project developed and tested a number of tools and activities to increase the budget transparency of local councils and, in the process, to learn lessons about their efficacy. Based on the lessons learned dur¬ing the implementation of the pilot, this brief summarizes recommendations that are relevant to policy makers interested in scaling up efforts at increasing budget transparency at the local level.

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