Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, through the International Budget Partnership, assists non-government organizations (NGOs) and researchers in their efforts both to analyze budget policies and to improve budget processes and institutions. The project is especially interested in assisting with applied research that is of use in ongoing policy debates and with research on the effects of budget policies on the poor. The overarching goal of the project is to make budget systems more responsive to the needs of society and, accordingly, to make these systems more transparent and accountable to the public. The project works primarily with researchers and NGOs in developing countries or new democracies.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, through the International Budget Partnership, assists non-government organizations (NGOs) and researchers in their efforts both to analyze budget policies and to improve budget processes and institutions. The project is especially interested in assisting with applied research that is of use in ongoing policy debates and with research on the effects of budget policies on the poor. The overarching goal of the project is to make budget systems more responsive to the needs of society and, accordingly, to make these systems more transparent and accountable to the public. The project works primarily with researchers and NGOs in developing countries or new democracies.
The International Budget Project launched the Open Budget Initiative, which produces the annual Open Budget Index (www.openbudgetindex.org). The Index is global in coverage and assigns a score to each country based on the information it makes available to the public throughout the budget process.