The Open Budgets Blog features the opinions of the International Budget Partnership’s staff and associates on government budgets, poverty reduction, budget transparency and citizen participation.

If you want to fight poverty, you need to care about government budgets. As the specific plans for how public funds will be raised and spent, budgets are governments’ most powerful tool to meet the needs and priorities of a country and its people.

The International Budget Partnership collaborates with civil society organizations from around the world to use budget analysis and advocacy as tools to improve governance and reduce poverty.