Participatory Budgeting Training

The link between effective public service delivery, poverty reduction and citizen participation in development is now being recognized by many leading development practitioners after observing some success in such countries like Brazil, India and South Africa after their pioneering efforts in civic engagement in the implementation of their pro-poor policies. In these countries, the direct involvement of civil society in budget formulation and analysis; expenditure monitoring and tracking, participatory performance monitoring as well as monitoring of public service delivery have resulted in, among other things, greater responsiveness and accountability of governments to their citizens' demands, better local service delivery, further enhancement of the decentralization process and a significant reduction in corruption as well as an increase in transparency and access to information.  Click here to view the Concept Paper on: Distance Learning Course on Participatory Budgeting for Africa

e-Learning Course on Participatory Budgeting

The Municipal Development Partnership for Eastern and southern Africa with financial assistance form the WorldBank has developed an Online Participatory Budgeting Level One Course Manual. This e-learning tool is accessible by clicking

http://www.asaaf.org.zw/pb-course1/

Africa Good Governance Program on the Radio Waves

Module 1: Governing Municipalities without corruption

• INTRODUCTION - Script - Final

• Session 1 - Budgeting Rationale and Objectives

• Session 2 - Municipal Accounting

• Session 3 - Typical Budgeting Problems- Main Issues and Policy Options

• Session 1- Typical Municipal Budgets

• Session 2 - Financial Reporting and Audits

• Session 3 - Selected Budgetary Issues and Policy Options

• Session 1 - Revenues

• Session 2 - Expenditure Budget

• Session 3- Revenue and Expenditure Management

Module 2: Community Participation for Good Governance

• Introduction
• Lesson 1
• Lesson 2
• Lesson 3
• Lesson 4
• Lesson 5
• Lesson 6
• Lesson 7
• Lesson 8
• Lesson 9
• Lesson 10
• Lesson 11
• Lesson 12

Module 3: Municipal Finance