Governance and Accountability

Decentralisation, Budget Analysis, Governance and Accountability are also focus areas of CBPS work. Workshops for enhancing facilitating inclusive participatory budgeting process and accountability have been conducted for urban local bodies and Gram Panchayats across various states. Understanding the determinants of own source revenues of Gram Panchayats as well as the criteria and processes for devolution of Plan funds through Centrally Sponsored Schemes have also been studied. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and its impact on financial inclusion and productivity of land have been reviewed. CBPS was also entrusted with the responsibility to prepare the District Human Development Report for Bangalore Rural District. This was under a larger project of Government of Karnataka under which they have developed District Human Development Reports for all 30 districts in the State. CBPS also prepared a Status Report of Millennium Development Goals in Karnataka. Since 2014, CBPS has trained two interns in Budget Analysis. Two toolkits for capacity building in the sphere of Budget Analysis and Local Self Governance have also been developed. An orientation workshop on Budget Concepts, Process, Analysis and Advocacy was also conducted for civil society organisations. CBPS intends to continue organising such capacity building workshops in future.

Projects

  • 23 Jan
    2011
    Duration: October 2009 - January 2011 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: Expenditure Reforms Commission (ERC), Government of Karnataka, India The institutional processes and mechanisms of programme implementation by Panchayati Raj Institution (PRIs) were studied in detail through consultations and field visits.
  • 23 Jan
    2011
    Duration: 2010-11 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: Expenditure Reforms Commission (ERC), Government of Karnataka, India CBPS analysed rationale of user charges, and the issues to be considered in framing a user charge policies and practice in three departments Urban Water Supply, Irrigation and Roads. Recommendations were based on literature on the topic advises and inefficiencies seen...
  • 23 Jul
    2009
    Duration: July 2009 - October 2011 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: CBPS, Bangalore, India The study analyses the processes and procedures of obtaining and shifting power connections in BESCOM.
  • 23 Mar
    2009
    Duration: March 2009 - February 2010 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: The Ford Foundation, New Delhi, India A study of municipal budgets and issues related to governance.  
  • 23 Jun
    2008
    Duration: January 2008 - June 2011 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: Google Foundation, California, USA The study analyses the budget and budgetary processes of rural and urban local self-governments and capacity building of various stakeholders including elected representatives.  
  • 23 Nov
    2007
    Duration: 2007-2012 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: Global Development Network (GDN) CBPS has partnered with the Global Development Network (GDN) for the project 'Strengthening Institutions to Improve Public Expenditure Accountability', with a focus on using tools of program budget analysis, benefit incidence analysis, cost effectiveness analysis and policy simulation exercises for the...
  • 27 Jan
    2007
    Status: Completed Duration: 2007 Publisher: Centre for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS) This manual is meant to help the ordinary citizen in understanding the budget that the state finance minister presents to the state assembly each year. Within that the focus is on the Indian states, which are constitutionally responsible for social services and development matters. It is the assembly t...
  • 08 Jan
    2007
    Duration: January-November 2007 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: Brookings Institution This study focuses on tracking the expenditure on health and education by local governments in Karnataka. The study also analysed the views of people at the offices (elected representatives and officers) to elicit their views and issues related to utilization of funds in the Health and Education secto...
  • 23 Jan
    2006
    Duration: January 2006 - December 2008 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: The Ford Foundation, New Delhi, India This project had twin core objectives of promoting an inclusive, participatory budget process and enhancing the capacity and accountability in the urban local governance in Belgaum and Kolhapur districts of Karnataka and Maharashtra. About 15 municipalities were covered in the p...
  • 23 Nov
    2005
    Duration: June 2005 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad, India The study documents the best practices across States and provides suggestion for improving the decentralization process in Andhra Pradesh, India.