Publication: Empowering Citizens through Budget Transparency and Enhanced School Governance in the Kaski, Dolakha, and Nawalparasi Districts
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2014-01
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Citizens often lack information on the use of public funds. They are usually left out of allocation decisions and do not have opportunities to provide adequate and timely feedback on the use of scarce resources. Transparency in the budgetary pro¬cesses reduces opportunities for wasteful and corrupt spending, consequently increasing the resources available to fight poverty. In Nepal, three districts Kaski, Dolakha, and Nawalparasi (one mountain, one hilly, and one plains region in the country) are piloting an initiative with support from the World Bank to promote greater budget transparency and improve school gov¬ernance. The initiative has three objectives, simplification, analysis, and disclosure of budgets at multiple levels (national, district, and school); awareness and capacity building of government officials and various levels to promote a public dialogue regarding public expenditures by encouraging demand-side governance; and documentation and dissemination. Two national NGOs with expertise in budget transparency and social accountability approaches Policy Research and Development (PRAD) and Community School National Network (CSNN) are facilitating the community mobiliza¬tion and budget dissemination process.
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