budget4changes.org

A wide range of civil society organisations are advocating for delivery of the many promises of increased aid made by G7 and EU members over recent years. The central source of such aid is usually budgetary allocations to a key Department/agency or agencies, which are typically presented by governments to the legislature on an annual basis. Advocacy, however, is complicated by poor availability and access to real time data on budgetary commitments, the difficulty of tracing ODA-qualifying expenditures across several budgets, and the absence of a common methodology in monitoring relative performance across donors.

The Budget4Change programme will address these constraints by providing a central source of advice on technical issues (the translation of alternative budget outcomes into future levels of ODA) and a central web-space where the results of budget monitoring in major donor countries would be displayed in real time.

Budget4Change will therefore provide reliable, publicly accessible information on the relationship of donor budgets to ODA to enable national and international groups to assess the likely impact of budgets on future aid levels and to enable more effective promotion of accountability for aid promises. The programme will include the following tasks:

Prior to the launch of the functioning central website, this holding page will hold preparatory documentation and analysis.

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Ongoing budgetary analysis in preparation of full website. Updated regularly.

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