1. Open Fiscal Data Package
Mexico City Workshop
Fiscal Openness Working Group
April 6, 2016
#FiscalTransparency

2. Outline GIFT and Open Data
Objectives of the Open Fiscal Data Package (OFDP)
Next steps

3. GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR FISCAL TRANSPARENCY
Action Network: flexible framework for impact
Advance and institutionalize significant & sustainable improvements in fiscal transparency, participation and accountability in countries around the world, by working on global norms, incentives, peer-learning, and technical assistance.
Funding comes from the World Bank, The Hewlett Foundation & Omidyar Network. 3

4. Fiscal Openness Working Group - OGP
GIFT work streams
Flexible framework for a network devoted to action & impact
Global norms on fiscal transparency (FT) & open budget
High-level principles on FT, public participation (PP) & accountability
Harmonization of norms & global standards
Principles on public participation in fiscal policies & advance the right to participate in budget processes
Incentives for FT & finding evidences of impact
8 country case studies about public participation
4 open data case studies
Think-pieces on incentives for TF
Impacts of FT: review of evidence
Transparency on revenues & taxes
Country FT commitments in OGP (analysis) 4

5. Streams of work of GIFT (2)
Fiscal Openness Working Group - OGP
Streams of work of GIFT (2)
Technical assistance & peer learning
OGP Fiscal Openness Working Group for enhancing & implementing commitments (help countries to disclose budget information)
Support processes for TF in specific countries (TA & peer-to-peer exchanges)
Engage countries in principles & standard discussions/making
Technologies & open data
Use of technologies for information disclosure & proactive dissemination
Open formats for budget data disclosure (BOOST-World Bank-Open Knowledge)
Community of practice: discussions, networks, webinars, blogs, videos, experiences, exchanges… 5

6. OFDP: Objectives (1)
Ensure budget information disclosure in a high-quality open data
Ensure reliability of the published information
Provide comparability of the data
Gratuity & accessibility
World-wide acceptance & global repository of micro-level fiscal data

7. OFDP: Objectives (2) Usability & reusability of fiscal data
Innovative visualizations for use, understanding & analysis
Adaptability to different country contexts
Facilitating assessment & tractability of committed actions
Addressing/Reflecting specific civil society and CSO demands

8. Governance + Partners
GIFT: convener & coordinator of the process; broker & manager of the iteration revisions towards sustainability
BOOST-The World Bank
Open Knowledge
Advisory Group of technical experts
Support from Omidyar Network (metrics)

9. OGP Action Plans - June 2016 Albania Armenia Australia Azerbaijan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Cape Verde
Chile
Côte d’Ivoire
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Estonia
Georgia
Greece
Guatemala
Guyana
Honduras
Indonesia
Ireland
Italy
Jordan
Kenya
Lithuania
Macedonia
Malawi
Mexico
Moldova
Mongolia
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Romania
Serbia
Sierra Leone
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Tanzania
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Uruguay

10. OGP NAPs 2016 & GIFT Brazil Mexico Côte d’Ivoire Mongolia Croatia
Paraguay
Dominican Rep.
Sierra Leone
El Salvador
South Africa
Georgia
Tanzania
Guatemala
Tunisia
Indonesia
Ukraine
Kenya
Uruguay

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