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