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Summary: This paper provides a basic guide to budget
processes and related aspects of public
expenditure management.
This paper provides a basic guide to budget processes and related
aspects
of public expenditure management. The paper was commissioned by the
Department for International Development, UK (DFID) aspart of the
programme of work to take forward the human rights strategy as outlined
in the document Realising Human Rights for Poor People (2001). The
purpose of the paper is to contribute to the evolving understanding of
public expenditure management as a political, rather than a purely
technical, process. The paper identifies issues, partners, tools and
methods that may help development actors to support citizen
accountability and a pro-poor, gender-equitable, focus in public
expenditure management. The paper aims to take this debate forward by
looking at the ways in which a rights approach can contribute to
strengthening pro-poor voice and outcomes in budget processes.
For more information on ODI's programme of work on human rights and
poverty reduction, visit
href='http://www.odi.org.uk/rights'>www.odi.org.uk/rightsOwner: Andy Norton and Diane Elsonpdf: www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/hrbap/Whats_Behind_Budget_ODI.pdf