![]() 150 international institutions and civil society organizations have so far joined our call. ![]() With so much at stake, we launched an urgent global Call to Action for governments to make advances in budget transparency, inclusion and oversight. Never has our mission to hold governments accountable for public funds been more vital. Our findings warned that this massive increase in COVID-19 spending would further strain already inadequate accountability systems. As our 2019 Open Budget Survey underscored, 80 percent of countries surveyed had inadequate levels of transparency and oversight in their budget processes. Governments had to act fast, but too many used the excuse of urgency to not be as transparent, accountable or inclusive as they could be. Governments leveraged emergency powers to suspend protests, postpone elections, and centralize decisions on spending-closing off civic engagement in the context of an already shrinking civic space and democratic backsliding.īy the end of the year, governments – backed by international donors –had mobilized $14 trillion in relief spending. The crisis exacerbated already rampant inequality, hitting those at the bottom hardest and making it even more difficult for historically marginalized voices to be heard. The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to our lives, our health, our livelihoods, and our rights.
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