Ahead of the release of Union Budget 2023, our lead Avani Kapur shares her top five predictions for the budget considering recent trends in allocations and releases, especially for social sector, concerning:
The panel aimed to push the debate on the new opportunities and barriers in moving towards a more holistic public finance management system that strengthens the implementation of social welfare programs through the policy cycle – from formulation, execution to finally evaluation.
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Bureaucracy makes the country’s development aspirations a reality. On the eve of 75 Years of Independence, we bring you insights from public administrators who are enabling Responsive Governance through their work.
India’s public finance management has always presented a dichotomy where on one hand several welfare programmes remain under-budgeted and states remain under-resourced, while at the same time, there are crores of rupees lying unspent in bank accounts.
While there is no systematic way of fully estimating the figures, and often cited estimated states that at least 1 trillion rupees lay as float in government bank accounts.
To understand this dichotomy and delve into new innovations that can solve some of the challenges in the current design of India’s Public Finance Management system, we spoke with Dr. Santhosh Mathew, Country Lead Public Policy and Finance, Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and a former IAS officer.
Any robust PFMS can be made more agile by tracking funds through the budget cycle from budget formulation, to execution and finally, evaluation. The pre-Budget period was thus an opportune moment to reflect on the shortcomings of the existing systems and the best practices associated with a focus on data and scalability.
In order to spark a longstanding dialogue on what can constitute an agile PFMS and inform evidence-based next steps, the Accountability Initiative at the Centre for Policy Research and MSC (MicroSave Consulting) brought together key stakeholders for a virtual panel discussion.
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Moderated by Ms. Avani Kapur, Lead — Accountability Initiative & Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research
Governance in India is complicated. A federal structure, decentralised functioning, elected representatives and bureaucrats, and quasi-government bodies all working together often means that making sense of how services are delivered to citizens can be a challenge in itself.
This panel discussion brought together leaders in the development space to stress the importance of strategic government engagement for development practitioners.
The discussion explored the challenges of governance, what kind of information is needed in order to create better strategies for government engagement, and how a tool such as Mapping Governance can support the work of development practitioners.
Teacher vacancies have been identified as a longstanding challenge for India’s education system. The National Education Policy, 2020 – the country’s milestone guiding document on education – too recognises a shortage of one million teachers and an urgent need to fill vacancies. But, aside from vacant posts, is there an actual shortage of teachers in India’s government elementary schools?
Watch the video to learn more about the Rashtriya Kishore Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK), which is an adolescent health Programme within the ambit of the National Health Mission (NHM).
हम और हमारी सरकार कोर्स के कुछ सफल प्रतिभागियों के साथ एक सेशन और उन प्रभावों पर चर्चा जो वे पैदा करने में सक्षम हुए | हम और हमारी सरकार ऑनलाइन कोर्स का औपचारिक शुभारम्भ |
कार्यशाला का मुख्य उद्देश्य बजट के विभिन्न भागों और प्रक्रियाओं को बारीकी से समझना था ।
