From Compliance to Credibility: Strengthening Budget Accountability in the Western Balkans & Türkiye
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From Compliance to Credibility: Strengthening Budget Accountability in the Western Balkans & Türkiye

🏛️ From Compliance to Credibility: Strengthening Budget Accountability in the Western Balkans and Türkiye marked the first regional launch of the Open Budget Survey 2025, bringing together government officials, civil society leaders, and international stakeholders in Tirana, Albania. 💰 This full-day convening explored what the latest OBS data reveals about fiscal transparency, public participation, and budget oversight across the region — and what it takes to move beyond formal compliance toward genuine institutional credibility and public trust. 🌍 Organized as part of IBP's Building Alliances for Budget Accountability Initiative, supported by the European Union, the event featured an official presentation of regional OBS 2025 findings followed by three expert panels examining the limits of transparency without credibility, why accountability gaps matter under fiscal pressure, and practical pathways from measurement to trust-building. 🎯 Essential viewing for policymakers, civil society advocates, researchers, and anyone working on budget reform, EU integration processes, and democratic fiscal governance in the Western Balkans and Türkiye. 🏛️ Press play and join the conversation on credible, accountable budgeting. ✨ 📊 Timestamps: 00:00 - Opening Session: Budgets, Trust, and Democratic Credibility (Aideen Gilmore) 05:27 - Mihai Damascan: EU Perspective on Budget Accountability 19:55 - Official Presentation of Open Budget Survey 2025 Regional Findings (Sally Torbert) 43:10 - Q&A: Open Budget Survey Data and Regional Insights 1:03:12 - Panel 1: Compliance without Credibility? Transparency Gains and Their Limits 2:17:59 - Panel 2: Why Accountability Gaps Matter Now — Budgets under Pressure 3:40:35 - Panel 3: Pathways to Building Trust — From Measurement to Practice 4:50:45 - Closing Reflections: What OBS 2025 Signals for Reform, Trust, and EU Integration ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ Explore More Resources ✨ 🔗 IBP's Work on Budget Accountability: https://www.internationalbudget.org/ 🔗 Open Budget Survey: https://internationalbudget.org/open-budget-survey/ 🔗 Western Balkans & Türkiye Report: https://internationalbudget.org/open-budget-survey/2025-western-balkans-turkiye/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #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 #AccountableSpending #DataForAccountability