“It is easier to teach an advocate how to understand a budget than to teach advocacy to an economist,” argued the International Budget Partnership’s Warren Krafchik at the recent presentation of the group’s Open Budget Survey 2010. His core message: if government transparency and budget accountability are our goals, broader engagement with civil society is…
Since we’re kind of concerned with transparency issues here at Global Integrity (!), we’ve always made our annual audited financials publicly available for download. Our 2009 audited financials are now available on our website, and our FY2009 tax return will also be posted once it is filed in the coming weeks.— Global Integrity
We’re sad to pass along the news that our long-time colleague Norah Mallaney has left Global Integrity to pursue a career in education reform. Norah has taken a new position with the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools here in Washington, DC. We’re in the process of bringing on a couple of new colleagues and hope…
UPDATE: See the Indaba project website at http://getindaba.org After 13 months of development, the third generation of Global Integrity’s online fieldwork platform, Indaba, went live yesterday. Hooray! Indaba was deployed in the field for the first time ever yesterday as lead researchers for the Global Integrity Report: 2010 began to gather data and information in…