Economic Literacy and Budget Accountability for Governance (ELBAG) is an approach promoted by citizens and Civil Society Organisations to monitor government budgets, economic policies and decision making for just and democratic governance. It is a part of a citizen's movement to seek accountability for Governance.
Citizens groups, social movements and NGOs in 22 countries- in Africa, Asia and Latin America are using the ELBAG approach and people based methodologies to promote economic justice and democratization. The ELBAG process enables collective actors in progressing on securing economic justice.
This website is an invitation to contribute to the process and goal of economic democratization and justice |
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Budget Advocacy for the water and sanitation sector in Nepal
A primer for Civil Society Organisation
-Water Aid, Nepal
This publication, a primer on budget, aims to equip civil society advocates, who help the poor and the marginalised to demand both rights of and access to water and sanitation, with skills in understanding the underlying principles, processes and the scope of budgeting from formulation to the auditing phase. To that end, it is produced as a compendium of practical tools that teach how to do a basic budget analysis, how to interpret the numbers, and when and how to be engaged in the four phases of the budget cycle. All these skills are relevant for civil society advocates who want the duty bearers in the government to succeed in meeting its own declaration to meet the MDG goals of providing water and sanitation by 2015, and the Nepalspecific universal access goal to all by 2017.
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Civil society participation must for pro-people budgeting: Punjab Peoples Budget Conference, Pakistan
ActionAid International Pakistan
Speakers at Punjab Peoples Budget Conference say that Punjab Budget 2009-10, for underdeveloped areas is underutilized.
LAHORE: involvement of parliamentarians and the civil society/community groups in budget making process right from its initiation to approval is imperative for pro-people budgeting.
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Civil society participation must for pro-people budgeting: Punjab Peoples Budget Conference, Pakistan
Speakers at peoples Budget Conference say Punjab Budget 2009-10 for underdeveloped areas is under utilized.
LAHORE: involvement of parliamentarians and the civil society/community groups in budget making process right from its initiation to approval is imperative for pro-people budgeting. The true process of development can not be sustainable until the decisions regarding economic and budget making processes are made inclusive and all the stakeholders play their due role in holding the government accountable.
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Public hearing for transparent budget demanded
Bangladesh scores 42pc in open budget index
by Khawaza Main Uddin
contributed for elbag.org by: Rezaul Kairm Chowdhury, convenor- Equity and Justice Group, Bangladesh
As the preparation of national budget lacks direct involvement of people and active participation of lawmakers, a mid-year public hearing by the relevant parliamentary panel can impel the budget makers to reflect on people’s aspirations in the annual financial statement. The demand for parliamentary hearing designed to improve transparency and accountability in public resource management came from a national dialogue held on Sunday on ‘To What Extent is Our National Budget is Open’.
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Financial Crisis and Democratic Deficit
-iBase
As the second volume of the initiative Financial Liberlisation and global governance: the role of international enitities, this book studies the democratic deficit in the operation of international financial institutions. It also proposes alternatives to overcome it. This initiative aims to strengthen the voices and the political struggles of the social movments, social organisations, parliamentarians, developing country governments among others to influence the institutions that decide on regulations, as those decisions have a direct and a profound impact on peoples lives and well being. The study attached as under
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Peoples Media, Peoples Rights! |
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Community Media is can be powerful source for amplifying people’s voices, of making an un-mediated representation possible. Stalin, from Video Volunteers , shares his experiences of developing and working with such community media networks across India...
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Updated Resource on the Nepal Country Page: Budget Speech 2009/10
Also see: Budget section of the Nepal Country page
Contributed by: WaterAid Nepal
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The Financial Crisis One Year on
-Jayati Ghosh
Exactly one year ago, the Wall Street investment bank Lehmann Brothers was allowed to go bust, in a move that is generally seen to have brought on the global financial crisis. Shock waves hit the financial markets; stock markets collapsed in waves of contagion across the world; credit seized up in most developed and many developing economies; and for a while it really did seem that global capitalism was facing direct threats to its very survival.
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Study on Indian Government budget allocations for Dalits by National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights coming up
-International Dalit Solidarity Network
The study is forthcoming; however there have been some press reports on the preliminary findings already suggesting that Dalits are being short changed.
Read Findings here.
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Global Economic Challenges: Conference on Action Plan for Africa and Least Developed Countries
-senagambianews.com, Binneh S. Minteh, Senegambia News Contributor
As the global financial crisis continues shaping the economic landscape of Africa and the Least Developed Countries, a conference on action plan for Africa and the Least Developed countries, was on Thursday, May 25th, successfully concluded at the ECOSOC Chambers, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The United Nations University (UNU) in collaboration with the office of the Special Adviser for Africa (OSA), and the Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries (LDC) hosted the occasion.
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