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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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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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Women fight for allocated budget |
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Women of Jahadi VDC, Kapilbastu district, were unaware of the provision of budget allocation for women's empowerment in the VDC until they started getting organised through women's groups formed by Siddhartha Social Development Centre. When they came to know of this provision, they went to the VDC secretary to enquire about how the budget was spent. Initially, the secretary refused to acknowledge that any such budget existed. However, when the women of the village picketed outside the VDC office, he disclosed that the budget had already been spent on other development works. The women demanded that the budget allocated for women's empowerment should be spent for the same purpose and threatened to agitate. The women let go off the VDC officials only when the VDC officials committed to do so in the coming year. The women of Jahadi are currently keeping a watchful eye so that similar incidents do not occur in the future.
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Recouping public money: claiming participation |
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 In the Banke district of Nepal, village groups overseeing the accounts of Channahwa’s Nepal Rashtriya Primary School claimed back NPR 4500 from the school management committee members.
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