– Learning Visit on Public Participation in Portugal and Joint BLTWG-GIFT Workshop. – Agenda.

– GIFT Network Meeting. – Background and Agenda.

– GIFT Meeting Minutes.

– In Cascais, WE PUT PEOPLE FIRST. – JOANA BALSEMÃO, Deputy Mayor, Cascais, Portugal.

– PEMPAL – Facilitating Practical Solutions in PFM across ECA. – Maya Gusarova, Sr. Public Sector Specialist, BCOP Resource Team Coordinator, World Bank.

– Mainstreaming Public Participation in Fiscal Policy and Budget Processes in PEMPAL Countries: Progress to Date & Next Steps. – Anna Belenchuk, PEMPAL BTLWG Leader.

– Participatory Budget in Sakhalin Oblast. – Anna Kharchenko, Minister of Finance, Sakhalin Oblast/Region.
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– The GIFT Action Network: How we Work, How we Learn, How we Move Forward. – Juan Pablo Guerrero, GIFT Network Director.

– An Assessment of the Fiscal Transparency of GIFT Stewards – Presentation. – Murray Petrie, GIFT Lead Technical Advisor.

– An Assessment of the Fiscal Transparency of GIFT Stewards – Document. – Murray Petrie, GIFT Lead Technical Advisor.

– Public Participation in the Era of Digitalization, IT and Open Data. – Lorena Rivero del Paso, GIFT Manager for Technical Collaboration and Cooperation.

– Participatory Youth Budget – Portugal. – Paulo Tomaz, Adviser to the Secretary of State for Youth and Sport
Ministry of Education of Portugal.

– School Participatory Budget – Portugal. – Pedro Abrantes, Expert Advisor from the Minister of Education Cabinet of Portugal.

– Institute of Public Finance from Croatia Presentation. – Mihaela Bronić.

– Open Knowledge International and GIFT. – OKI, Sander van der Waal.

– Cooperation with GIFT. – Vice President, Jorg K. Petrovič. The Court of Audit of the Republic of Slovenia.

– GIFT Stewards Meeting. – Ministerio de Finanzas Públicas de Guatemala, José Antonio Menéndez.

– ICEFI and GIFT. – ICEFI, Ricardo Barrientos.

– National Secretary Of The Indonesian Forum For Budget Transparency. – SEKNAS FITRA, Gulfino Guevarrato.

– GIFT STEWARDS MEETING. – Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Abuja, NIGERIA, Anne N. L. NZEGWU.

– MOF (CROATIA) AND GIFT. – Ministry of Finance of Croatia, Hana Zoričić.

– Dialogue, learning and collaborative technical assistance in a multi-stakeholder initiative. – Ministry of Finance of Croatia, Hana Zoričić.

– Transparencia Presupuestaria y Participación Pública: República Dominicana. – Ministerio de Hacienda, Maria D. Mariñas M.

– MOF and the GIFT Network -The Way Foreword-. – Ministry of Finance of Egypt, Sara Eid.

– Latin American Open Data Initiative. – ILDA, Fabrizio Scrollini.

– TRANSPARENCIA PRESUPUESTARIA YRENDICIÓN DE CUENTAS. – Subsecretario de Presupuesto, Secretaría de Hacienda, Alejandro Gallego.

– The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance and GIFT. – Founder and Board Chair, Emerging Markets Investors Alliance, Ashok Parameswaran.

– GIFT General Stewards Meeting. – Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Joel Friedman.

– GIFT General Stewards Meeting. – MINISTRY OF FINANCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA, IGA Krisna Murti.

– Portal de Transparencia económica. – The Ministry of Finance of Colombia, Leonardo Buitrago.

– Fiscal openness in ARGENTINA. – Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia, Renzo Lavin.

– NCDHR @ the GIFT GENERAL STEWARDS MEETING. – National Coordinator of the economic rights unit, National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights India, Beena Pallical.

– Mexico and GIFT. – Mexico & GIFT, Aura Martínez Oriol.

– Budget transparency in Mexico. – Fundar, Centre for Analysis and Research, Haydeé Pérez Garrido.

– GIFT General Stewards Meeting. – Fundación Nacional para el Desarrollo (FUNDE), Jaime López.

– GIFT and IBP Pilot PROJECT on PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. – IBP, Suad Hasan.

– Uruguay’s progress in Fiscal Transparency. – Planning and Bugdet Office (OPP) URUGUAY, Álvaro García.

– My organization and GIFT. – Observatorio del Gasto Fiscal, Jeannette von Wolfersdorff.

– GIFT General Stewards Meetings. – Consejo para la Transparencia de Chile, Gloria De la Fuente González.

– Benefits tothe Network. – Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM), Christopher Jay Kruuse.

– 5 ideas. – Roby Senderowitsch, Practice Manager / Governance Global Practice, World Bank.

– Hope for democracy, 30 years of Participatory Budgeting Worldwide. – Nelson Dias, Assembleia da República.

– GIFT General Stewards Meetings. – Tara Vasiljević, Center of Excellence in Finance, Ljubljana.

– The GIFT Operating Rules: Changes for a Stronger and more Cohesive Champion Network. – Juan Pablo Guerrero, GIFT Network Video.

– PORTUGAL NATIONAL PARTICIPATORY BUDGET. – Isabel Baia, Agência para a Modernização Administrativa (AMA).

– Make your participatory budgeting dream come true. – Ivan Shulga, Task Team Leader, World Bank.

– Budget Transparency in Brazil. – Carmela Zigoni, INESC.

GIFT General Stewards Meeting Minutes.

DAY 1

– Annotated Agenda

– GIFT Stewards Meeting. Juan Pablo Guerrero, GIFT.

– List of participants

I. STEWARDS AND PARTNERS UPDATES

– Assessment of Peer Learning. Anja Linder, GIFT Consultant.

– GIFT: Lessons from Peer Learning. Anja Linder, GIFT Consultant.

– Evaluating the Impact of Fiscal Openness Initiatives – Call for proposals for impact evaluations by GIFT members. Paolo de Renzio (IBP).

Update on CABRI work on Fiscal Transparency in Africa:
1) Strengthening budget transparency and participation. Michael Castro.

2) Next Steps Framing workshop. Michael Castro.

– Corruption Book Executive Summary. ICEFI.

– Corruption Book Presentation. ICEFI.

– Corruption Book Press Release. ICEFI.

– Fighting Corruption in the Federal Expenditure Budget. Fundar.

– GIFT High-Level Principles: Draft Expanded Version presentation. Murray Petrie, GIFT.

– GIFT High-Level Principles: Draft Expanded Version (Word file). Murray Petrie, GIFT.

– CIPFA Public Sector Financial Accountability Index. Vincent Tophoff, IFAC.

– Stocktake of PFM Diagnostic Instruments 2016. Lewis Hawke, PEFA Secretariat.

– The State of Education in the Netherlands. Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.

II. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN TAX POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION

– Public participation in revenue policy design and implementation Concept Note (draft for discussion). Murray Petrie, GIFT.

– Public participation in tax policy: framing the conversation. Murray Petrie, GIFT.

– Corruption, Taxes and Compliance. Anja Baum, Sanjeev Gupta, Elijah Kimani, and Jules Sampawende Tapsoba.

– SAT más abierto – Fiscal Data Anonymization. Leonardo Arroyo.

– Guatemala 2015-2016: a case of tax administration recovery reform lead by civil society. Ricardo Barrientos, ICEFI.

– Tax amnesties and reliefs. Access to Information and Tax Secrecy. FUNDAR.

– Tax spillover: a new framework. Andrew Baker and Richard Murphy.

– Public participation in tax policy and administration. INESC.

– Transparency and public disclosure in the WBG’s work on tax. Jim Brumby. World Bank.

– Tax Transparency and the Revenue Cycle. Richard Murphy. Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City, University of London.

– Public participation in tax policy and administration. A picture of Brazil situation and Inesc’s work. INESC.

DAY 2

III. OPEN FISCAL DATA STATE OF THE ART

– Brazil Updates. MauroSantos, Secretaria de Orçamento Federal – SOF Federal Budget Secretariat.

– Updates on U.S. Spending Transparency Improvements. Amy B. Edwards.

– PROGRESSING FROM BUDGET TRANSPARENCY TO ACCESSIBILITY TO PARTICIPATION – Croatian experience –. Hana Zoričić, Ministry of Finance, Croatia.

– Budget Transparency Portal. Janet López, Oficina de Planeamiento y Presupuesto del Uruguay.

– Linking data: Unleash the potential. Lorena Rivero del Paso, Mexico’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.

– Data Connectivity. Lorena Rivero del Paso, Mexico’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.

– PTE: Economic Transparency Portal. Leonardo Buitrago, Colombia’s Ministry of Finance.

– OpenSpending & Fiscal Data Package past, present & future. Diana Krebs & Vitor Baptista, Open Knowledge International.

IV. BREAK-OUT SESSIONS- VARIOUS TOPICS

– Budget administrative classification data: transparency at the public service facility level. Murray Petrie, GIFT.

Minutes of the GIFT General Stewards Meeting Mexico City, March, 8-9.

MATERIALS:
• General Stewards Meeting Agenda Mexico City, March, 8-9.

• General Stewards Meeting. Juan Pablo Guerrero.

• Opening Up Government Deals and Pesos. Kathrin Frauscher.

• Open Contracting and Fiscal Transparency. Where do they meet? Lorena Rivero del Paso, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico.

• Fiscal Transparency – New Milestone. Federal Budget Secretariat, Brazil.

• Fiscal Transparency Updates News for 2017. Lorena Rivero del Paso, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico.

• Enhancing Public Financial Management in the Public Sector. Vincent Tophoff – IFAC.

• OFDP Evaluation. Secretaria de Orçamento Federal Federal Budget Office, Brazil.

• The Open Fiscal Data Package. Diana Krebs, OKFN.

• Open Fiscal Data Package in Mexico. Aura Mtz. Oriol, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico.

• Public Participation in Fiscal Policy Principles and selected issues. Murray Petrie.

• Education Reform program platform. Aura Mtz. Oriol, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico.

• The Guide on Principles and Mechanisms of Public Participation in Fiscal Policy. Tania Sánchez Andrade.

• #FiscalTransparency Paraguay. Rafael Palau.

• General Stewards Meeting – Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia. Iga Krisna.

• Avanzando hacia los datos abiertos. Carlos Antonio Mendoza Alvarado, Ministry of Finance of Guatemala.

• Fiscal Transparency and Public Participation in South Africa. Raquel Ferreira, National Treasury of South Africa.

• Fiscal transparency advocacy. FUNDE, El Salvador.

• Strategic Planning Meeting for GIFT – Agenda.

• Guide on Principles and Mechanisms of Public Participation in Fiscal Policies Presentation Seminar – Agenda.

• Meeting Agenda.

• Summary of meeting minute.

• Fiscal Transparency Commitments in OGP National Action Plans. Juan Pablo Guerrero

• Public Participation in Fiscal Policy Principles & Mechanisms. Juan Pablo Guerrero

• Guide to the Principles of Public Participation in Fiscal Policy. Olivia Radics & Tania Sanchez

• OPENNESS THAT TRANSFORMS Making Fiscal Transparency Work for the People – Government of the PhilippinesGovernment of the Philippines. Sec. Florencio “Butch” B. Abad

• Moldova: Fiscal Transparency Commitments in OGP National Action Plans. Iurie Țurcanu

• Open Government Partnership Mexico’s Fiscal Transparency Commitments. Lorena Rivero del Paso

• Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia. Mardiasmo – Vice Minister of Finance

• Public Participation. Vidal Llerenas Morales

• Fiscal Transparency – Ministry of Finance of Georgia. Natia Gulua

• Fiscal Transparency Commitments in Guatemala’s 3rd Open Government Action Plan – Comments by Icefi. Ricardo Barrientos

• Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires Ministerio de Hacienda. Martín Mura

• Transparencia Fiscal en Uruguay: situación actual y desafíos – OPP. Álvaro García

• Open Budgeting, transparency and public participation – South Africa. National Treasury: Raquel Ferreira and Public Service Accountability Monitor: Zukiswa Kota

• Transparency in Paraguay. Lea Gimenez

• Fiscal Transparency Commitments in OGP’S National Action Plans Workshop – Ministry of Public Finance of Guatemala. Carlos A. Mendoza

• Fiscal Transparency in Mongolia and its Commitments in OGP NAP 2016-2018 – Open Society Forum. Oyunbadam.D

• Fiscal Transparency Commitments in OGP’s National Action Plans & GIFT General Stewards Meeting – Institute of National Affairs & Department of Treasury – Papua New Guinea. Paul Barker & Peter mondoro

• Fiscal Transparency in Mongolia – Ministry of Finance. Lea Gimenez

• Group 3 – Linking fiscal transparency initiatives to transactional data. Greg Linden, Dr. Mardiasmo, Natia Gulua, Vidal Llerenas, Keith Mclean, Peter Mondoro, Darga, Ganbat and Zukiswa Kota

• Propuesta de temas a priorizar – Ciidh, Guatemala Mario Celada

• GIFT-FOWG workshop: OGP Fiscal Transparency Commitments – Legislativo México.

• Talking points – Moldova. Adrian Lupusor, Executive Director, Expert-Grup.

• Advisory Group Meeting Agenda.

• Open Fiscal Data Package – ADVISORY GROUP, First Meeting.

• Exploring new frontiers in fiscal openness – BOOST. Massimo Mastruzzi.

• Fiscal Data Package Review & Next Steps – OKFN. Cecile LE GUEN.

• GIFT / Fiscal Data Package – Iteration 3 – OKFN. Paul Walsh.

• GIFT General Stewards Meeting and Public Participation Seminar. Hazel Feigenblatt and Olivia Radics.

• Citizens and non-state actors should have the right and effective opportunities to participate directly in public debate and discussion over the design and implementation of fiscal policies. Brian Wampler.

• PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN FISCAL POLICY: Approval of GIFT Principles and Next Steps, Day 1. (PPT presentation) Murray Petrie.

• An International Initiative on Fiscal Transparency, Participation & Accountability. Juan Pablo Guerrero & Murray Petrie.

• Comparative study of public participatory experiences. Vanessa Macedo.

• The Impacts of Fiscal Openness: A Review of the Evidence. Paolo de Renzio and Joachim Wehner.

• OGP Action plans due in June 2016. Abhinav Bahl.

• Transparency in Mexican Federal Revenues. Héctor J. Villarreal, CIEP.

• PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN FISCAL POLICY: Approval of GIFT Principles and Next Steps, Day 2. Murray Petrie.

• Program Stewards Meeting Dec 1-2.

• Report GIFT 2 Semester Stewards Meeting Nov 30.

• General Stewards Meeting Minutes.

• Stewards Lead Stewards Meeting Summary.

• Measuring Fiscal Transparency. – Lorena Rivero del Paso – GIFT.

• Public Participation & Meaningful Transparency in Fiscal Policy Planning. Juan Pablo Guerrero – GIFT.

• Fiscal Transparency Portals: Can they be used more strategically? Lorena Rivero del Paso – GIFT.

• Communicating the Budget Effectively to Citizens & Media. Tarick Gracida – GIFT.

• Engaging Citizens to Monitor Performance in Service Delivery. Lorena Rivero del Paso – GIFT.

• Nigerian Tour to the National Treasury of South Africa Agenda. – The Budget Department of the National Treasury of South Africa.

• Africa Country Partnerships on Fiscal Transparency Portals: Nigeria and South Africa. Report of Activities. – GIFT.

• Budget Monitor – ICT based citizen Participation in Supervision of Public Finances. – Giorgi Chakvetadze, State Audit Office of Georgia.

• International Data Standards Connectivity – Unleash the power of data by linking standards. – Lorena Rivero del Paso, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico.

• Open Data Rally Mexico. – Alejandra Macías, CIEP.

• Open Contracting, Budgets and Spend – Linking data to unblock budget execution. – Lindsey Marchessault and Tim Davies, Open Contracting.

• Open Fiscal Data. – Sander van der Waal, Open Knowledge International.

• Special meeting at the Secretariat of Federal Budget Agenda – South Africa, Brazil.

• Launch of the New Portal of Transparency of the Brazilian Federal Government Agenda. English – Español

• Brazil’s Federal Planning and Budget – George Soares, Federal Budget Secretariat.

• High-Level Principles of Fiscal Transparency According to GIFT – Márcio Luiz De Albuquerque Oliveira, Federal Budget Secretariat.

• Brazil’s New Transparency Portal – Cibelle, CGU.

• Brazil’s New Transparency Portal – Otavio Neves, CGU.

• Transparency Against Corruption – The Brazilian Experience – Otavio Neves, CGU.

• Public Access to Federal Budget Data in Brazil PPT – HTML. Mauro Tapajós Santos, Federal Budget Secretariat.

• Budget Transparency – The New Global Toolkit – Sean Dougherty, OECD.

• Presupuesto abierto y justicia fiscal – Renzo Lavin, ACIJ.

• Transparencia presupuestaria en Argentina – Gustavo Merino y Guillermo Valentino, Ministerio de Hacienda de Argentina.

• South Africa: Update on Projects – Raquel Ferreira, National Treasury of South Africa.

• Portal de transparencia presupuestaria de Uruguay – Gabriela Delfino, Oficina de Planeamiento y Presupuesto de Uruguay.

• Egypt’s Fiscal Transparency – Challenges and Opportunities – Sara Eid, Ministry of Finance of Egypt.

• Portal de transparencia fiscal de El Salvador – Rosa Mixco, Ministerio de Hacienda de El Salvador.

• The Road to Budget Transparency in Mexico – Carlos Brown, FUNDAR.

• Transparencia presupuestaria en Paraguay – Rafael Palau, STP Paraguay.

• Acciones sobre transparencia fiscal y participación pública – José Antonio Menéndez, Ministerio de Finanzas Públicas de Guatemala.

• Listado de urls sobre transparencia de la República Dominicana – Alejandro Mercedes, DIGEPRES.

• Concept Note and Agenda GIFT

• Mexican Transparency Portal: Creation Process and Evolution Lorena Rivero, SHCP.

• Big Data, Small Data and Open Data Lorena Rivero, SHCP.

• Online Public Consultations That Helped Identify Users Lorena Rivero, SHCP.

• Citizen Engagement Strategies Lorena Rivero, SHCP.

• Plain Language as Communication Policy – How to communicate budget? Tarick Gracida, GIFT.

• Social Media Tips – Do’s and Don’ts Tarick Gracida, GIFT.

• Public Participation as a Crucial Component of Fiscal Transparency Standards at Global Level: How and Why it happened? GIFT – Juan Pablo Guerrero

• Workshop Program.

• Enquête Sur le Budget Ouvert 2017. IBP

• Guidelines and Case Studies on Public Participation in Fiscal Policy. GIFT – Juan Pablo Guerrero

• Lignes directrices et études de cas sur la participation du public à la politique budgétaire. GIFT – Juan Pablo Guerrero

• Workshop Agenda. ParlAmericas

• Fiscal Openness and Opportunities. GIFT – Juan Pablo Guerrero

• Public Participation in Fiscal Policies. GIFT – Juan Pablo Guerrero

• Parlamento abierto para presupuestos públicos en México. FUNDAR – Guillermo Ávila.

• Encuesta Open Budget Survey – Un Instrumento para la transparencia en el presupuesto público. Juan Sebastián Simbaqueba y Mario Freddy Martínez P.

• Participación pública en políticas y procesos presupuestarios: perspectiva y experiencia internacional. GIFT – Tania Sánchez Andrade y Juan Pablo Guerrero.

• Agenda Observatorio – Word

• Observatorio de calidad del gasto público Conceptos clave y experiencia internacional – PPT

• Conclusiones del Primer Taller para la Creación de un Observatorio del Gasto Público – Word

• Informe sobre el evento Implementación del Observatorio de Calidad del Gasto Público en Guatemala – Word

• Agenda workshop – PDF

• Principios y prácticas de transparencia: participación para fortalecer a las Entidades de Fiscalización Superior  – PPT