September 6 2017 | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Workshop: Strengthening Accountability through Fiscal Transparency Practices
PRESENTATIONS
- Towards Establishing a Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) in Jamaica. Cheryl Gibson, Assistant Clerk, Parliament of Jamaica
- Fiscal Openness and Opportunities. Juan Pablo Guerrero, Network Director, Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT)
- Fiscal Transparency as an Element of Government Accountability. Sandeep Saxena, Senior Economist of the Public Financial Management
Division, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Public Participation in Fiscal Policies. Juan Pablo Guerrero, Network Director, Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT)
- Public Participation in Budget Policy – The Story of Gender Responsive Budgets in Mexico. Manuela Garza, Founding Partner, Colectivo Cometa
RESOURCES
- Report: Workshop “Building Trust between Parliaments and Citizens”. ParlAmericas, 2017
- Budget Transparency Toolkit. OECD
- Recommendation of the Council on Principles for Independent Fiscal Institutions. OECD, 2014
- Draft Guideline for Operationalizing a Parliamentary Budget Office. The Global Network of Parliamentary Budget Officers, 2015
- Public Participation Principles Guide. GIFT, website
- The Fiscal Transparency Code. The International Monetary Fund, 2014
