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OPEN BUDGET SURVEY (OBS) 2023 Papua New Guinea - Headwinds and tailwinds: Navigating budgets in a turbulent time

9 Oct 2024

What is the Open Budget Survey 2023? • The Open Budget Survey (OBS) is the world’s only independent, comparative and fact-based research instrument using internationally accepted criteria to assess the three pillars of public budget accountability: transparency, oversight and public participation. [...] • This entails: public availability and comprehensiveness of central government budget information, formal opportunities for public participation in the budget process and the role of budget oversight institutions such as Parliament and auditor in the budget process. [...] Scored questions: 142 of the questions are scored and include: • 109 indicators assess the public availability and timeliness of budget information, • 18 indicators assess opportunities for the public to participate in the budget process, and • 18 indicators assess the role of the Legislature (Parliament in PNG) and the supreme audit institution (. [...] The OBS 2023 also measures the extent to which governments include the public in budget decision-making and monitoring, as well as the role and effectiveness of the Legislature and supreme audit institution (Auditor-General) in the budget process. [...] Indonesia 70 Timor-Leste 37 (it may be noted that this relates to the publishing of the 2022 Budget in a timely manner at the start of 2023, and the failure to provide a Pre-Budget Statement in a timely manner prior to the tabling of the 2023 Budget.

Authors

Paul Barker

Pages
70
Published in
Papua New Guinea

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