Holding Governments to Account: Public expenditure analysis for advocacy
This report provides a valuable introduction to public expenditure analysis and opportunities for advocacy by NGO practitioners.
- Published
- January 2002
- Price
- £9.95
- ISBN
- 9781841870489
This publication can be ordered from our distributor, NBN International.
Understanding of budgets and government expenditure has long been the preserve of government officials and a few academics. The documents that relate to it are typically inaccessible and clouded by technical language.
Yet it is here that government policy is translated into action and outcomes. It is important that NGOs engage with public expenditure issues both to strengthen their policy advocacy and to improve government transparency and accountability.
Holding Governments to Account provides an important introduction to public expenditure analysis and advocacy for NGO practitioners.
The extensive glossary of technical terms, from budget compliance to fungibility, helps demystify the subject and where these terms appear in the text they are highlighted, aiding its use. Further reading, including web resources, are signposted at the end of each chapter.
Holding Governments to Account will be useful to development workers and researchers involved in advocacy at the national level and to those promoting good governance.
Related reading
- Toolkits: A practical guide to planning, monitoring, evaluation and impact assesment
- The Child Development Index: Holding Governments to account for children’s wellbeing
- Development, Rights and Justice for the World’s Poorest Children
- A Child's Portion: An analysis of public expenditure on children in the UK
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