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Programme

What the programme prepares

Participants prepare to read budget records, follow allocations and track public expenditure from approval through release. Training covers the documents a public budget produces, the reports that follow each spending cycle, and the questions that can be asked at each stage. Content draws on the WATAG campaign on budget and public spending monitoring without repeating campaign material.
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What participants work on

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Reading a budget

How budgets are set out, the parts they contain, and where the figures come from.

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Tracking an allocation

How funds move from approval to release to department and programme.

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Checking a release

How spending is recorded and how records compare with the original allocation.

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Asking a question

How findings from a spending cycle lead to public questions.

Structure

How the training runs

Three stages, in order.

Documents

Participants read budget documents and learn where each part of the record comes from.

Tracking

Participants follow a single allocation through release and into a department or programme.

Questions

Participants prepare the questions that follow from a spending cycle they have tracked.

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Related work

The budget monitoring campaign covers the subject this programme prepares participants for. Publications on budgets and spending sit under Research.