7 edition Open Budget Survey 2019

Chapter 4 reviews the results of the survey on public This report presents the findings of the Open participation, based on 18 questions that assess Budget Survey 2019 on budget transparency, formal the extent of meaningful opportunities for public opportunities for public participation, and the role engagement in the budget process. [...] The state of budget transparency Access to timely and comprehensive information on Each country is assigned a score from 0 to 100 based the government’s budget is the starting point for public on the simple average of the responses to these engagement in fiscal policy. [...] Trends in budget transparency The OBS budget transparency measure is comparable This chapter explores the drivers of progress across previous rounds of the survey, and tracks progress observed in OBS 2019, and identifies the countries, and trends in countries over time. [...] Transparency is an urgent demand from the public The changes in Guatemala’s budget transparency in Guatemala: the country has seen corruption scandals, practices can be credited both to the commitment extensive tax evasion, and one of the lowest rates of tax of ministry officials and to the sustained dialogue and compliance in the world.20 Mass protests against corrupt advocacy between the governm. [...] In OBS about the reason for these reforms: that the most 2008, the country scored 46 and only provided limited critical elements are the consolidation of the culture amounts of budget information and few efforts to make of openness within government and making budget this information more accessible.