1. Educating about
The budget
Online courses experiences

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

13. Thanks! More at: https://www.transparenciapresupuestaria.gob.mx/