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🏛️ Progress Under Pressure: Budget Accountability in MENA brought together government officials, parliamentarians, civil society leaders, and development partners at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C. for the regional launch of the Open Budget Survey 2025 for the Middle East and North Africa. 💰 While the region faces ongoing conflict, democratic strain, and fiscal pressures, the OBS 2025 results revealed gradual gains in budget transparency and oversight across eight MENA countries — showing that public budgets remain one of the few institutionalized arenas where accountability can still operate. 🌍 Panelists explored how governments across the region are navigating the pressure to spend more on services while managing rising debt and the costs of conflict, and how strengthening citizen engagement in budget processes offers a critical pathway to rebuilding legitimacy, fostering trust, and renewing the social contract. 🎯 Essential viewing for policymakers, civil society advocates, researchers, and anyone committed to advancing fiscal accountability and inclusive governance in the MENA region. 🏛️ Press play and join the conversation on budget transparency under pressure. ✨ 📊 Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome and Introduction (Emad Emam) 02:13 – Opening Remarks (Ana Patricia Muñoz) 05:50 – EU Remarks on Budget Accountability in MENA (Pablo Cendoya Revenga) 18:06 – Open Budget Survey 2025: MENA Regional Findings (David Robins) 34:04 – Q&A: OBS Data and Regional Insights 41:35 – Panel Introduction: Progress Under Pressure 44:51 – Rand Al Khzouz: Parliamentary Engagement and Budget Oversight in Jordan 51:07 – Mouna Bengerine: Budget Reform and Transparency in Morocco 56:44 – Hama Ziedan: Civil Society and Accountability in Palestine 1:03:32 – Ayman Sabea: Community-Driven Health Accountability in Egypt 1:17:06 – Closing Remarks (David Robins) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ Explore More Resources ✨ 🔗 The MENA Report: https://internationalbudget.org/events/progress-under-pressure-budget-accountability-in-mena/ 🔗 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: Ana Patricia Muñoz — Executive Director, International Budget Partnership Pablo Cendoya Revenga — DG MENA, European Commission David Robins — Manager, Open Budget Survey, International Budget Partnership Rand Al Khzouz — Member of House of Representatives, Jordan Mouna Bengerine — Direction du Budget, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Morocco Hama Ziedan — Operation Director, AMAN, Palestine Ayman Sabea — CEO, Shamseya Health Care Innovation Moderated by: Emad Emam, Senior Program Officer (Regional Coordination), International Budget Partnership Supported by: The European Union, UK International Development, UNICEF, and Open Government Week ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #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