Promoting Public Engagement Through Transparency Initiatives
Explore how the Institute of Public Finance in Croatia leverages information technologies and open data to enhance public engagement, with a focus on promoting online local budget transparency, citizen participation in budgeting processes, and fostering anti-corruption efforts through various projects and initiatives. Discover successful examples of motivating citizens to engage in budget discussions at both national and local levels.
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GIFT Stewards Meeting, Workshop and Learning Visit on Public Participation Portugal, October 15-17, 2018 Mihaela Broni Institute of Public Finance Zagreb, Croatia
Institute of Public Finance and GIFT IPF s work has benefited from the GIFT s network by: using GIFT's resources such as public participation guide learning from others experiences due to participating in the peer learning activities, workshops and using feedback provided by the Coordination Team strengthening IPF s relationship with the Croatian Ministry of Finance
To what extent information technologies, open data and digital tools have supported your efforts in increasing openness and public engagement? IPF promotes online local budget transparency with the long-term project - annually measuring how many key local budget documents has each of 568 LGUs published online IPF publishes newsletters, press releases, etc. (with downloadable excel tables for further use) and sends them to more than 2,000 email addresses scientific articles, online and free of charge, in IPF s journal Public Sector Economics
Motivating citizens on budgets Successful examples at the national level are rare, but some do exist, e.g. Experts Pre-Budget Consultations Through the Commission on Fiscal Policy Economic and Social Council multi-sectoral representatives give opinions on the Executive s Budget Proposal and monitors implementation of the annual budget
Your organization's gift to GIFT Continuous promotion of local budget transparency OLBI project Guides to the Budget for the Citizens of the City of Zagreb During 2018-2019 two additional projects Money watch civil society guarding the budget for Institute Alternativa, Montenegro; the aim is to contribute to fight against corruption by more efficient control of public spending citizens guides for CSOs and executive branch Open budget school for policymakers, CSOs and media WeBudget - from transparency to participation for CSO Ministry of Space , Serbia aimed at creating visualization solutions for local budgets organization of budget schools in three cities
Thank you Your comments and suggestions are welcome 6
