The ‘citizen budgets’ of Africa make governments more transparent

“Citizen budgets” are often created as a collaboration between civil society groups and government departments, where the fiscal process is made more understandable to the general public by producing abridged and user-friendly versions of the budget. According to the Open Budget Index,the most comprehensive international budget transparency survey, some of the best improvements in budget transparency reform are happening in the weakest ranking countries such as Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. To tell us more...

Guest: Usman Chohan
Position: International Budget Expert, Scholar of Global Policy Reform,and Governance Advisor
he has also previously been a Consultant with the World Bank and is currently an economist at the University of South Wales