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Lost Money?
Lost Money?
Lost Money?
Our online platform offers a comprehensive image of the manner in which public funds are spent and offers information and tools for participating in the national and local budgetary decision-making process.
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What social issue was your project trying to solve?
At the level of the general public, there is the perception that public money are lost either do to the poor management, or to corruption. Most of the times, the manner in which public funds are spent is a mistery for the taxpayers. With the exception of vague information appearing in mass-media with regards to several investment projects, citizens are not informed with regards to the budgetary process, even though the information is public and they have the necessary legal rights to participate to the process.
How is the project solving it?
Our solution was to engage informed civil society (taxpayers) in the decision making process related to the priorities in public spending. The two main objectives are: 1. Growth (quantitative and qualitative) of the awareness on the issue of public spending; 2. Offering information and tools for influencing the decision-making process
Our online platform offers a comprehensive image of the manner in which public funds are spent and offers information and tools for participating to the national and local budgetary decision-making process.
What is the current status of your project?
The project is available on-line in its alpha version and the beta version will soon be released. The first version was promoted through an integrated promotional campaign, which focused on online tools (both social media, traditional media articles, webcasts) and on offline tools (roundtable with stakeholders, press conference, promotion event, participatory budgeting event).
Are there any offline components of your project?
The project used the offline events for three purposes:
1. Stakeholders engagement (relevant authorities in the field of public finance were approached)
2. Promotion (press conference and event with aprox. 100 young citizens for the launching soiree)
3. Participatory budgeting (served to test the content and approach of the online eParticipatory budgeting tool)
How are you planning to develop the project?
Our second phase of the project aims to make sure that citizens have enough information and tools for influencing the decision-making process. The steps for achieving this goal are work in progress, with the help of the grants received to develop the eParticipatory budgeting features: web and social media-based application for informed participatory budgeting. Offline debates are also programmed for the beginning of 2013.
The third phase of the project is focused on an extensive understanding of the bigger picture related to the impact of budgetary decisions on development. We aim to develop a map of accountable public funds investment which will mean: evaluation of the current situation with a set of development indicators to evaluate the assets and issues of the national budget and 3 to 5 local budgets; socio-economic audits to evaluate on the ground the presence and impact of the indicators on the citizens; impact evaluation for public contracts/ works developed in these areas.
Who is engaged in the project?
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We'd love to learn more about Restart projects in the region and even adopt the relevant ones to Romania.
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Any comments about the human resources?
The team is relatively small right now. In order for the project to evolve and take another step forward, 2 to 3 additional persons would be needed on the content side of the project.