By Vera A. Wilhelm, Philipp Krause
By means of integrating their poverty aid ideas, nationwide budgets, and the corresponding reporting procedures, low-income nations can advance family responsibility and the implementation of pro-poor regulations. This learn, according to case reports in 9 low-income international locations and a overview of proper event in 4 higher-income international locations, bargains sensible insights for donors and nationwide governments on the way to improve the hyperlinks among poverty aid recommendations and budgets.
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Considering the case study experiences and recent literature, the chapter assesses the extent to which accountability has been enhanced through the PRS and budget in practice and highlights the accountability gaps that typically preclude the forging of closer links between the two processes. Chapter 4 explores how general efforts to link PRSs with the budget have worked in the past. It argues that narrow technical reforms generally enjoy less success than gradualist and integrated reforms, which gain impetus from ownership by core groups in government.
Real accountability mechanisms are complex, however. To usefully apply this stylized framework to planning and budgetary processes, it is necessary to recognize the variety of actors and institutions involved in policy formulation (for example, central and sector agencies within government, parliaments, civil society groups, donors), and the fact that often the tasks involved can be of a different nature (for example, related to the PRS, to sector policies, or to the budget). Different accountability mechanisms are at work at any one moment, such as • Parliament (principal) holds the executive (agent) accountable for implementing the budget as approved.
39 40 Linking Poverty Reduction Strategies and Budgets reform seems to have worked well. These cases allowed sufficient time to strengthen basic systems, starting with credible and reliable budget execution, before moving to more sophisticated measures. Chapter 5 homes in on the important role of budget and PRS reporting for domestic accountability and the difficulties and possible gains associated with different approaches to their integration. 5 Integrating PRS and Budget Reporting This chapter considers the challenges posed by the proposal to build stronger links between Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) and budget reporting in the interests of more effective domestic accountability.