Introduction The United States State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (“country reports”) strive to provide a factual and objective record on the status of human rights worldwide. The 2021 country reports were published on 12 April 2022. Section…
East Africa PFM digital transparency recent trends
Introduction Transparency of public finances is a key element of a public financial management (PFM) system enabling public scrutiny of government actions and intentions. From our September 2020 “Improving PFM digital transparency in African finance ministries” presentation we now examine…
Trends in African finance ministries’ social media usage
We have prepared a SlideShare presentation that highlights the response levels achieved recently by African finance ministries in their social media activities. You can view the presentation at: http://www.slideshare.net/johnleo/african-finance-ministries-social-media-and-public-financial-managementAfrican finance ministries, social media and public financial management. This supplements the…
African Finance Ministries, Social Media and Public Financial Management
Posted by David Fellows and John Leonardo[1] What contribution does the Social Media have to make to improving public financial management (PFM) and fiscal transparency? In a recent study, we found that 26 of the 34 OECD states had Twitter…