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Educating about The budget Understanding Mexican Budgeting, Public Spending through Data

Educating about The budget Objective Offer tools to understand how the government uses public resources. Consolidate a closer relationship between society and government. Encouraging the use of interactive platforms that facilitate learning about topics of public interest. This course aims to put in the hands of the participants the necessary tools , both conceptual and practical, to understand how government organizations use public resources. Convert the existing data on this into actionable information.

Educating about The budget General topic The use of open data from the budget cycle. Target population Anyone interested in the topics, including students, academics, public policy consultants and external evaluators with internet access. Method of implementation Online through the MéxicoX platform. Masive Online Open Course (MOOC) Organization(s) involved The Ministry of Finance, through the Performance Evaluation Unit. SocialTIC. Ministry of Education, through plataform MéxicoX.

Educating about The budget Tools Webinars Textobook . Available for consultation Audiovisual material Welcome and introduction to data analysis in Excel Welcome and start here Course information and policies Textbook Excel diagnostic exam Excel practical exercises

Educating about The budget Unit 1. Introduction to Public Spending •Theoretical framework •The State’s role in economy •Market and government failures •Public goods •Public finances • Public spending •Where do public resources come from? •The expenditures budget •How is public spending organized? •The budgeting process in Mexico: The Budget Cycle •Planning •Programming Budgeting •Exercise and control •Monitoring Follow up •Evaluation •Accountability Unit 2. Follow up and evaluation of budgetary programs •Background •What is follow up and evaluation? •Performance Evaluation System •Annual Evaluation Program •Synthetic Model of Performance Information •Federalized Spending

Educating about The budget Unit 3. Transparency, Accountability and Open Data Right of access to information and participation Transparency Active transparency Reactive transparency Proactive transparency Accountability Vertical accountability Horizontal accountability Diagonal accountability Budgetary transparency Open Data Open Data publishing formats Uses of Open Data Unit 4. How to get information on public spending? Budgetary Transparency Portal Sections Public Budget Public Works Goverment Programs Local Governments Open Data Budgetary Transparency Portal Platforms “Fuerza México”: a platform on earthquake 2017 recovery resources Open Public contacts “Escuelas al Cien”: a platform on school’s rehabilitation and improvement Budgetary transparency for the consolidation of Open Government

Educating about The budget Results First Edition, 2017 17,500 inscriptions Terminal efficiency 71.68% Second Edition, 2018 16436 inscriptions Terminal efficiency 68.07% Third Edition, 2019. Cooming soon

Educating about The budget In the two years that the MOOC has been taught, how to understand the budget? 11,610 people have graduated. The main interested population are public servants since 82% of those approved belong to this sector. Example of collaboration between civil society organizations.

Educating about The budget Open Data and Data Capacities Participants lack basic open data concepts and data use Users require practical data capacities to achieve full-use of budget data MOOC platform and format requires a mix of guided teaching, demonstration and self-learning Data use resources available for data literacy at www.escueladedatos.org

Educating about The budget Data Capacities Building at MOOC Open data use self-training before MOOC started Open Data concepts introduction from a technical and budget perspective Exercises based on the curricula and NOT a section of the course Guided tutorials for introductory data use capacity building

Educating about The budget On-demand video tutorials Introduction to Open Data Pivot Tables Cell formats Conditional formatting Filtering and ordering data CVS file use Recorded top Q&A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLPd0VOQTnnumCq_Wmj_njw/videos

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