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The Institute for Democracy \u201cSocietas Civilis\u201d-Skopje (IDSCS) and the Center for Economic Analyses (CEA) are promoting the public policy study \u201cBudget Transparency and Accountability in Macedonia\u201d.
\nIDSCS and CEA conclude that regardless of where the legal obligation derives from, budget users are obliged to make information and data which relate to their programs, strategies, budgets, spending and similar documents publicly available. These obligations are determined by the Law on Free Access to Public Information, Law on Use of Public Data and the Law on Budgets. However, despite such legal obligation, the current level of budget transparency of the budget users is at a minimal level. The budget for the current year is published online on its website by only one in 60 monitored institutions, while the annual accounts are published by only 4 institutions.<\/p>\n
Aiming to advance the budget transparency in Macedonia, this public policy study recommends the following:<\/p>\n
–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Budget Proposal should be delivered to Parliament at least 3 months before the start of the next fiscal year.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0All budget users should publish their budget proposals, adopted budgets and audit reports on their websites.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Ministry of Finance should begin preparation of a Citizens\u2019 Budget.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Ministry of Finance should correct the delay and the Fiscal Strategy should be adopted by 31 May in the year, the latest.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Ministry of Finance in the Fiscal Strategy should provide more information about the resources that the Government plans to allocate according to its programs.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0To take into account the possibility of adopting the Fiscal Strategy in the Assembly
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0All budget users should publish their monthly reports with short comments, a review of the execution of the budget in the specific month and comparison with the forecasted spending
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Ministry of Finance should fulfill its legal obligation to publish the Midterm report, which should be followed by other institutions, and it should contain a more detailed reporting on the execution of the Budget in the first semester.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Government and the Ministry of Finance should take initial activities to include the wider public in consultations about the budget priorities.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0All budget users, in addition to www.otvorenipodatoci.gov.mk website, should also publish their budget reports, the Budget, the annual account and the reports on the execution of the budget, as well as other documents, in a form of open data.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Ministry of Finance should introduce mechanisms (petitions and online requests) through which the citizens and other stakeholders will be able to submit requests for auditing of some institution.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Ministry of Finance should begin organizing an open budget forum annually and semiannually, through which the ministry will consult the public and stakeholders in regards to the budget process.<\/p>\n
The full study and the recommendations can be read on the following links: in Macedonian\u00a0 The Institute for Democracy \u201cSocietas Civilis\u201d-Skopje (IDSCS) and the Center for Economic Analyses (CEA) are promoting the public policy study \u201cBudget Transparency and Accountability in Macedonia\u201d. IDSCS and CEA conclude that regardless of where the legal obligation derives from, budget users are obliged to make information and data which relate to their programs, strategies, budgets, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,1161,71,3,59,243],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3837,"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/3837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"mk\"](\"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mk.png\")
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\nThe study was prepared within the project \u201cEnhancing Transparency and Accountability through Performance Budgeting\u201d which is implemented by CEA and IDSCS and which is funded by the European Union. The aim of the project is to promote budget transparency for accountable spending of public finances. More information about this project can be found on the following link www.idscs.org.mk.
\nThis publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the Institute for Democracy \u201cSocietas Civilis\u201d – Skopje\u00a0 and the Center for Economic Analysis and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"