Budget monitoring and policy influence - Briefing paper - ODI Briefing Papers 16
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ODI is the UK’s leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. the findings of a study, led by the International Budget Project and the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, which attempts to fill this gap by bringing together evidence from case studies of organisations in Brazil, Croatia, India, Mexico, South Africa, and Uganda that have been engaged in budget work for at least five years (Box 1). During the course of the research, the evidence collected led to the formulation of an interpretive framework that brings together budget groups’ different objectives and the factors that shape their capacity to achieve results (Figure 1). Despite their different backgrounds and histories, these organisations share some common long-term objectives, including ‘good governance’ broadly defined and the improvement in the social and economic conditions of the poor. This study focused mostly on a set of intermediate outcomes more directly linked to applied budget analysis as a research and advocacy tool. These intermediate outcomes belong to two categories: budget accountability (budget groups’ impact on levels of budget transparBriefing Paper 16 March 2007
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