Open Budgets. Transform Lives: The Open Budget Survey 2010

Budget transparency has become central to a number of international development discourses, ranging from the financing of climate change mitigation, to country- level actions to meet international development commitments like the Millennium Development Goals, to accounting for the revenues from the sale of natural resources, and to examining the amount of international aid given to developing countries and how it is spent.or these reasons, the International Budget Partnership created the Open Budget Survey. The Survey is the only independent and comparative measure of government budget practices, with its rigorous approach receiving substantial praise from international public finance experts. This report analyzes the third implementation of the Survey, which yielded four main findings.