1. OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP AMERICAS REGIONAL MEETING GIFT activities
Buenos Aires
November 20-22, 2017
#FiscalTransparency

2. Meeting Activities & Objectives
Four activities: 1 workshop + 3 OGP sessions
Workshop on fiscal transparency and public participation in fiscal policy
Fiscal Openness Working Group
GIFT public participation in fiscal policy award
High-Level Fiscal Transparency panel
Exchanging experiences in fiscal transparency and public participation
Providing technical assistance through peer-to-peer learning
Defining next steps on FT & PP for my country 2

3. Monday Nov. 20 – The Workshop
Fiscal Transparency and Public Participation in the OGP National Actions Plans in the Region
International Public Sector Financial Accounts Systems: Where are we? (IFAC)
GIFT AWARDS: Public Participation in Fiscal Policies, learning from Georgia, Portugal & Mexico
When Demand & Supply Speak: Portals, Open Data, Social Media, Communication Strategies (AR, CL, RD, SV, UY, GT, MX) 3

4. Tuesday Nov. 21 – Fiscal Openness Working Group
Innovations and Advancement in FT and PP
What are the most important challenges in communicating fiscal information?
What do we know about the quality of information that is being produced and published?
How do we know if we are doing it right? How do we correct and improve on a permanent basis? H
ow can we assure sustainability of these initiatives beyond political shifts in our countries?
Discussion animated by IFAC, GIFT, CL, UY, AR, and ALL 4

5. Tuesday Nov. 21 – GIFT Awards
THE WINNERS:
Isabel Xavier, Participatory Budgeting, Municipality of Cascais
Giorgi Chakvetadze, State Audit Office of Georgia: Budget Monitor
Héctor Robles, Farm Subsidies, México
Responses by:
Jese Gallardo, Ministry of Finance, El Salvador
Daniel Torres, Treasury, Dominican Republic 5

6. Wednesday November 22 – FT Panel Argentina from a Global Perspective
Luciana Díaz Frers, Treasury, AR
Alejandro Gallego, Secretariat of the Budget, Treasury AR
Natalia Gherardi, Latin-American Team for Justice and Gender, AR
Budget transparency, for whom? Who are the users?
Who opposes these efforts?
What’s new in the field?
What’s the role of fiscal transparency in the open government efforts in your country?
How to make it last?
What is the long lasting benefit for society? 6

7. OGP Americas: budget documents produced internally but not publised

8. Summary Using Open Budget Survey tracker as at December 2016:
What budget documents/reports are being produced within government in the region but are not being published or being published in time?
Publishing these documents could be (relatively) technically simple and low cost way to increase budget transparency
Publication would demonstrate commitment to open government as OGP member 8

9. Colombia: publish Citizens’ Budget on time; publish Mid-Year Review
Country results
Chile: publish Pre-Budget Statement (produced but not published in 2015 OBS, not produced as at end-December 2016)
Colombia: publish Citizens’ Budget on time; publish Mid-Year Review
Dominican Republic: publish Pre-Budget Statement
Honduras: publish on time the Pre-Budget Statement & the Citizens’ Budget 9

10. Other low costs steps to increase transparency
Argentina: publish a Mid-Year Review (already publishing in-year reports)
Costa Rica: publish a Mid-Year Review (already publishing in-year reports)
Guatemala: publish a Mid-Year Review (published late in 2015 OBS, not produced at December 2016, but in-year reports were published) 10

11. Engage with us
@FiscalTrans