○ The DBM is also lobbying for the passage of the Budget Modernization Bill that promotes the use of the principles of fiscal sustainability to guide national government budgeting and strengthens the national budget oversight 6 powers of Congress. [...] Improvements have been made to the fiscal transparency portal to facilitate this, including through the introduction of a tool that provides for the dissemination of state-owned company information, and through the publication of information on the attainment of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. [...] o Municipality of Ozurgeti, Georgia: 13 The municipality thanked GIFT for the opportunity to be part of the network, and the peer-learning opportunities provided, important in furthering the municipality’s efforts to become more democratic and in promoting public participation in the budget process. [...] arising from the Open Budget Survey (OBS) The facilitator set the scene for the session, talking to the relevance of openness in public financial management, and the recent and the Global Data publications in May 2022 of the Open Budget Index and the Global Data Barometer, that for the first time includes a Public Barometer’s (GDB) Finance Module, which was co-created with GIFT. [...] During the event, members of the public were able to ask questions with responses to citizen inputs provided by the Minister of Finance; the Minister of State, Budget and National Planning; and the Director General of the Budget Office.
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