International Budget Partnership 27d ago

🏛️ Accountability at a Crossroads: Open Budget Survey 2025 Findings for Sub-Saharan Africa brought together government officials, civil society leaders, development partners, and regional institutions for the virtual regional launch of the OBS 2025 results across 33 Sub-Saharan African countries. 💰 At a time when the region faces mounting fiscal pressures — high debt burdens, geopolitical vulnerability, and growing demand for public services — the OBS 2025 results revealed both progress and persistent gaps in budget transparency, public participation, and oversight across the continent. 🌍 Co-organized with UNICEF, this webinar explored how strengthening public finance management systems can improve service delivery, build trust between governments and citizens, and ensure that fiscal systems work for the most vulnerable — including children. Panelists from government, civil society, and international institutions shared evidence, experience, and practical pathways for reform. 🎯 Essential viewing for policymakers, civil society advocates, researchers, and anyone committed to advancing fiscal accountability and inclusive governance in Sub-Saharan Africa. 🏛️ Press play and join the conversation on accountable budgeting at a crossroads. ✨ 📊 Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome and Introduction (Djibril Badiane) 04:57 – Opening Remarks (Sudhanshu Handa, UNICEF) 14:51 – Open Budget Survey 2025: Sub-Saharan Africa Findings (Sally Torbert) 35:07 – African Union Perspective (Patrick Ndzana Olomo) 48:51 – Charlie Martial Ngounou: Civil Society and Advocacy in Cameroon 1:00:25 – Henry Machemba: Children's Rights and Accountability in Malawi 1:12:51 – Diana Mbabazi: Budget Reform in Rwanda 1:24:54 – Massamba Dieng: Budget Transparency in Senegal 1:44:23 – Closing Remarks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ Explore More Resources ✨ 🔗 OBS 2025 — Sub-Saharan Africa: [REGIONAL REPORT URL TBC] 🔗 Open Budget Survey 2025: https://internationalbudget.org/open-budget-survey/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About This Channel Welcome to the International Budget Partnership – your gateway to transparent, inclusive, and accountable public budgeting worldwide. 🌍✨ Discover the transformative power of fiscal transparency and embark on a journey toward democratic governance and social justice. Our content is crafted to: 🏛️💚 Advance transparent and participatory budget processes 🌍❤️ Strengthen civil society engagement in fiscal policy 🚪🌟 Promote accountability in government spending and revenue 💭✨ Cultivate informed public participation in budget decisions Whether you're a civil society advocate, policymaker, researcher, or engaged citizen, we provide tools for budget analysis, fiscal advocacy, and democratic participation. Join us as we work toward a world where fiscal systems serve all people equitably—one budget at a time. Subscribe now and make budget transparency a part of your advocacy toolkit. 📊🏛️🌍 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔🚨 Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/@IntBudgetPartnership?sub\_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Featured Speakers: Sudhanshu Handa — Chief Economist and Director, Center of Excellence for Child Poverty, UNICEF Sally Torbert — Global Lead, Policy and Research, International Budget Partnership Patrick Ndzana Olomo — Head, Economic Policy and Sustainable Development, African Union Commission Charlie Martial Ngounou — President, AfroLeadership Henry Machemba — National Coordinator, NGO Coalition on Child Rights, Malawi Diana Mbabazi — Budget Management and Reporting Analyst, MINECOFIN, Rwanda Massamba Dieng — General Director of the Budget, Ministry of Finance, Senegal Moderated by: Djibril Badiane, Program Manager (Senegal), International Budget Partnership Co-organized by: International Budget Partnership and UNICEF Supported by: The European Union, UK International Development, and UNICEF ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #BudgetTransparency #FiscalTransparency #OpenBudgets #TransparentBudgets #AccessibleBudgets #OpenFiscalData #GovernmentAccountability #PublicAccountability #BudgetOversight #BudgetMonitoring #BudgetCredibility #ExternalAudits #PublicAudit #SupremeAuditInstitutions #SocialAudits #ParticipatoryBudgeting #BudgetParticipation #BudgetAdvocacy #AdvocateForBudgets #BudgetLiteracy #FiscalLiteracy #CivicEngagement #CivicBudgeting #BudgetEducation #PublicSpending #GovernmentSpending #PublicExpenditure #StateExpenditure #FiscalPolicy #EquitableFiscalPolicy #EconomicJustice #FiscalJustice #TaxEquity #FairTaxation #DebtAccountability #ResponsibleDebt #GenderBudgeting #GenderResponsiveBudgets #InclusiveBudgets #BudgetsForAll #InternationalBudgetPartnership #IBP #IBPGlobal #OpenBudgetSurvey #OBS #OpenGovernmentFinance #OpenGovFinance #SAI #BudgetJustice #PeoplePoweredFinance #BudgetInclusion #RightToInformation #PublicFinanceMatters #DemocratizingFinance #FiscalDemocracy #CivicPower #TransparencyMatters #AuditTheBudget #BudgetForEquity #BudgetChampions #OpenData #RightsBasedBudgeting #FiscalActivism