A toolkit on budget transparency: for integrity, openness and sound budgeting - Ruben Werchan, OECD Secretariat

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This presentation was made by Ruben Werchan, OECD Secretariat, at the 12th Annual Meeting of OECD-CESEE Senior Budget Officials held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 28-29 June 2016

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A Toolkit on Budget Transparency:
for integrity, openness and sound budgeting
Ruben Werchan
Joint meeting of CESEE SBO / OGP Fiscal Openness Working Group
Ljubljana, June 28-29 2016

Overview
• Background - Why a toolkit?
• The content and the structure of the toolkit
• Further steps

Background of G20 Anti-corruption Working Group (ACWG):
Implementation Plan 2015-16
• “Promoting greater budget transparency and fiscal openness
plays an important role in anti-corruption efforts, including
by deterring illicit diversions of public money by corrupt
officials and promoting good governance”
• “Promoting greater budget transparency and fiscal openness
has important links to the G20 resilience agenda, including by
fostering greater public confidence in the stability and
soundness of public finances.”
• “develop a G20 practical toolkit on budget transparency”
The G20 Context

Do we need more rules for budget transparency?

• Help to self-assess level of budget transparency, and
to plan and implement transparency-focused
reforms
• Reinforce key messages by bringing together the
insights of the international community of budget
transparency
• Provide a gateway to resources that are already
available across the international community
3 useful roles for a “toolkit”

Structured in five institutional spheres
Budget Transparency
Toolkit
Government
Reporting
Parliamentary
Involvement
Independent
Oversight
Openness and
Civic Engagement
Interaction with the
Private Sector
A
Providing useful budget reports
during the annual cycle
B
Including the right financial
information in budget reports
C
Benefiting from parliamentary
engagement and scrutiny
D
Supporting parliamentary
capacity
E
Monitoring and control of
budget execution
F
Supporting the role of the
Supreme Audit Institution
G
Designing effective Independent
Fiscal Institutions
H
Making the budget accessible to
the public
I
Using open data to support
budget transparency
J
Making the budget more
inclusive and participative
K
Opening up public contracting
and procurement
L
Revenues and expenditures in
resource endowments

Structure of the Chapters
Colours and icons for easy
navigation within the document.
Quotes from publications of
leading institutions in the area to
highlight the relevance of the
topic
Overview of the chapters content

Chapters and sections
J Making the budget more inclusive and participative
4. Openness and Civic Engagement
□What opportunities do different institutions
have to foster participation?
□How can realistic and relevant public
participation be enabled and encouraged?
□How to design a participation process that is
best suited to deliver meaningful, substantive
contribution?

Country Examples and Key References
Examples of how different
countries have implemented a
certain policy.
A list of key references to direct
the reader towards more
in-depth documents.

Why did we chose this approach?
• Over-riding principle: short and sweet
• broaden concept of budget transparency
– Traditionally: making budget by government
– Toolkit: Roles by diverse player:
budget execution + open government + anti-corruption
• Country examples – teasers

Further steps
• Have received a lot of feedback over the past weeks
– review the toolkit in light of this feedback
– Incorporate the feedback where appropriate
• Will further improve the existing document
• Ideal scenario: a toolkit that is genuinely useful, and
that is developed and maintained on collaborative
principles

Thank you
for your attention!
Contact:
Jaehyuk Choi
Jaehyuk.CHOI@oecd.org

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