International Budget Partnership 6d ago

🏛️ Making Public Money Work for All brought together development practitioners, civil society leaders, and policymakers in Washington, D.C. to mark 20 years of the Open Budget Survey — examining the persistent gap between fiscal policy on paper and outcomes in practice. 💰 Formal gains in budget disclosure have not always translated into greater accountability and equity. Tax systems create unequal burdens. Debt decisions remain outside public scrutiny. Social spending fails to reflect citizens' needs. Yet bright spots in government and civic-led reform show that more equitable and more responsive fiscal systems are possible. 🌍 Co-organized by IBP, the Keough School of Global Affairs, and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the convening drew on two decades of Open Budget Survey data and country reform experience to sharpen one central question: what will it truly take to make public money work for all? 🎯 Essential viewing for policymakers, development practitioners, civil society advocates, and researchers committed to fiscal equity, transparency, and accountability. Press play and join the conversation. ✨ 📊 Timestamps: 00:00 – Welcome and Opening Remarks (Andrés Mejía Acosta) 00:03 – Welcome from FCDO (Chigomezgo Mtegha-Gelders) 00:12 – Keynote: Fiscal Transparency and the Reform Agenda (Rodrigo Valdés, IMF) 00:23 – 20 Years of the Open Budget Survey: Findings and Direction (Ana Patricia Muñoz) 00:34 – Panel 1: From Transparency to Accountability 1:07 – Panel 2: New Directions for Fiscal Reform 1:34 – Closing Remarks (Ana Patricia Muñoz) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ Explore More Resources ✨ 🔗 Open Budget Survey: https://internationalbudget.org/open-budget-survey/ 🔗 OBS Global Report: https://internationalbudget.org/open-budget-survey/2025-global/ ⚠️ Please verify all URLs before publishing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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: Rodrigo Valdés — Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund Caren Grown — Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Brookings Institution Ana Patricia Muñoz — Executive Director, International Budget Partnership John Kinuthia — Deputy Executive Director, Bajeti Hub Shantayanan Devarajan — Professor of the Practice of International Development, Georgetown University Yinka Babalola — Country Director Nigeria, International Budget Partnership Chigomezgo Mtegha-Gelders — Head of Public Financial Management and Macroeconomics, FCDO Moderated by: Andrés Mejía Acosta (Keough School of Global Affairs) and Gustavo Flores-Macías (University of Maryland School of Public Policy) Co-organized by: International Budget Partnership, Keough School of Global Affairs, and FCDO Supported by: The European Union, FCDO, 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 #AccountableSpending #DataForAccountability