Open budget survey

Project description:

In order to enable civil society to analyse and influence the budget process and institutions, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities from Washington (non-profit NGO which deals with budget analysis) launched the International Budget Project in 1997. In cooperation with civil and academic partners, an extensive questionnaire was prepared for measuring budget transparency.

Since 2006, researchers from numerous countries have been filling out the questionnaire (120 countries in the last round in 2021). The collected data is used to calculate the Open Budget Index. All questionnaires for Croatia were filled out by researchers from the Institute of Public Finance, and the results are described in the Institute's Press Releases:

• No. 8: Open Budget Index 2008 - Small Advances Made in the Accessibility of Information about Croatian Public Finance
• No. 26: Croatia's score on Open Budget Index 2010
• No. 47: Croatia's Open Budget Index 2012 score - a slight improvement in the quality and comprehensiveness of budget information
• No. 85: National budget transparency - a deterioration in the quality and comprehensiveness of government revenue and expenditure information
• No. 102: National budget transparency: public access to budget information remains limited despite slight improvement
• No. 114: Central government budget transparency in Croatia: in spite of noteworthy achievements, there is still a lot of room for improvement
• No. 118: Have budget funds allocated for mitigating corona crisis been spent in an open and accountable manner?
• No. 125: Central government budget transparency: Croatia records slight drop compared to previous research cycle
• No. 137: Central government budget transparency: Croatia with much room for improvement