New frontiers in fiscal openness: open fiscal data and participation

Mexico, October 29, 2015

Global Trends

Budget Transparency Around the World

Why we need to elevate standards in data dissemination

Accessibility

Comprehensiveness

Usability

New frontier PDFs

Documentation

Consistency

Budgets and outturns

Granularity

FMIS fragmentatio

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Consolidation

Comparability

BOOST: Facilitating Access & Analysis of Public Spending

Budget Deviation at Municipal Level

Overall Spending, Executed - Approved

Personnel

Goods and

ServicesCapital

Financing

Who

Admin

What

Expenditure chain

Where

Function/program/

geographic

How

Economic

MDAs, subnational units, projects, etc..

A typical BOOST: Moldova

If information was available in these formats…..

…..It would be easier to start Tracking Spending flows across levels

….Monitor capitation grants by subnational unit

….Assessing targeting of primary spending in education

….Facilitating Analysis of Efficiency of Public Spending

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Rutka-TartakPLN 3,710

TarłówPLN 8,330

ChełmżaPLN 4,530

KrasnystawPLN 6,390

Primary School Test Scores, 2009 (vertical axis) Proportion of Adults with Secondary Education or Higher, 2002 (horizontal axis) Total Per-Pupil Primary Education Expenditure, 2004-2008 average (bubble size)

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Open Budgets Portal

The Portal provides access to BOOST databases along with documentation of its uses – Over 30 million rows disseminated!

http://www.worldbank.org/openbudgets

Showcasing best practices and new frontiers in fiscal openness:

Mexico BOOST

Peculiarities

Accessibility

Geo-tagging

Tax expenditures

Comprehensive

Tax expenditures are among the least scrutinized items despite

being often large, non transparent and for the most part regressive!

Showcasing best practices and new frontiers in fiscal openness:

Mexico BOOST

Peculiarities

Accessibility

Geo-tagging

Tax expenditures

Comprehensive

Overcoming FMIS fragmentation: Haiti BOOST – before...

Ministry of Planning and

External Cooperation

Ministry of Interior and Subnational Governments

Ministry of Economy

and Finance

Recurrent Budget

Special Treasury Funds

Autonomous Institutions and Public Enterprises

Subnational Governments

Foreign-funded

investment projects

Domestically-funded

investment projects

The Supreme Audit Institution and the Ministry of Interior are in charge of monitoring the budgets of the 140 communes.

Information Systems- SYSDEPonly tracks recurrent

expenditures.

- The Aid Management Platformmonitors and includes foreign-funded investment projects

- SYDONIA and Tax Solution are the two management systems operated by the Customs and Tax Departments.

Off-budget Items- The Budget Law does not include

disaggregated revenue and expenditure data for Special Treasury funds.

- Autonomous institutions and public enterprises (65) do not regularly report on their activities.

…..And after

Open Budgets in Action

Promoting Open Budgeting: Moldova

In 2011, Ministry of Finance publishes BOOST database – first country to release budget data to the public using BOOST

National think tank Expert Grup uses the information to create a series of sector infographics

Leveraging GPSA resource, group partners with MoE to coordinate grassroots monitoring of school performance

Budget analysis informed by BOOSt was key to motivate interventions

Expert Grup published infographics using BOOST

Budget Analysis by Expert grup using BOOST(available at http://wbi.worldbank.org/boost/country/moldova/resource/highlights)

Linking Budget Analysis to Service Delivery Outcomes: Tunisia

• World Bank advises Ministry of Economy and Finance in the development of Open Data Platform

• Capacity building provided to officials from different ministries on how to use BOOST database to undertake budget analysis

• Implementation of multi-stakeholder initiative to sustain uptake and impact of fiscal transparency efforts

Charts (Left) and Interactive Tables (Right): Tunisia Open Data Platform

Government officials and CSOs participate in capacity building event

Abdul Fofana and his university classmate at BOOST training camp,

World Bank office in Togo

“The training opened our eyes. It was the first time we got access to real budget data – what is actually being spent and where the priority public expenditures are.”

Abdul FofanaGraduate student, University of Lomé, Togo

Enhancing Access to Budget Data: Togo

Interactive Tables: Togo(available at http://www.togoreforme.com)

• BOOST platform linked to Ministry of Economy and Finance website – used primarily by government officials

• University students trained on how to read the budget and use BOOST for academic research

Thank you!

http://www.worldbank.org/openbudgets