Center for Economic and Social Development

CESD develops Public Expenditure Tracking Model
CESD prepares public expenditure tracking model to track budge

t expenditures. G.Togrul, CESD Manager, said that the state budget guideline is the main instrument for implementation of government policy decisions on public expenditure programs. Meanwhile, Public Expenditure Review (PER) is the main annual instrument for monitoring pro – poor expenditures. There is a growing demand for data/information and models for effective and accuracy monitoring and evaluation and tracking of the pro – poor funds identified for the village communities. CESD, feels that can play a role as an input to PER by implementing a pilot project to be followed by comprehensive project in tracking government pro – poor expenditure within priority sectors such as health. The geographical focus for the pilot project encompasses 4 main regions of Azerbaijan. The specific goals of our activities in this direction are to empower communities’ participation in public expenditures tracking, increase awareness on public expenditure, and enhance transparency in the process of using of health fund in communities. Poverty reduction requires good governance at both state and local level, which particularly entails increasing transparency and efficiency in formalization and usage of public funds, providing public participation in decision making process in usage of budget revenues, spending budget expenditures for directly covering public demands in Azerbaijan. We are targeting to enhance transparency of budget expenditure in health sector and promote participation by community, civil society, in particular mass media and NGO, in assessing transparency of budget expenditure. Thus it will institutionalize community participation in performance stage of budgeting process, which will further contribute to promoting principles of good governance and social dialogue between key policy network and citizens.

Current Projects

• “Auditing in Local Governments in Azerbaijan”,
• “Preparing ping of Annual Report on Good Governance and Anti-corruption in Azerbaijan”
• “Monitoring on Agriculture Sector in Azerbaijan”,
• “Developing of Strategy of State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan Republic”
• Media Campaign on Increasing Awareness in Oil Revenues
• Increasing Awareness among Communities,

Lastest Publication

Read CESD produced new strategy paper on State Oil Fund’s Strategy The economic life of Azerbaijan is closely tied to the oil. The study claims that possessing oil can spoil if the resources are spent to satisfy the short-term interests, but it may also become an advantage, if managed wisely, through proper defining and keeping in mind the long-term interests of the entire society owning the resources.

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	16-22%
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About CESD

Center for Economic and Social Development (CESD) was established for the purpose of promoting research into contemporary economic and social problems in 2005. The Center aims at organizing and promoting theoretical and practical research in the economic and social development problems (i), providing policy advice to the Government of Azerbaijan (ii), click here.

Contact details

Tel: +994 (012) 495 4248
Fax: +994 (012) 437 3240
Email: cesd@aztelekom.net

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Events

12 Workshops are scheduled to be taken place in different regions in Azerbaijan in the first half of 2008. Workshops will be addressed on public expenditure tracking, budget transparency, WTO Accession and Poverty Reduction. CESD also holds 2 National Conference in Baku, the capital city, in April, 2008. More information on up-coming events can be obtained by contacting with the center at cesd@aztelekom.net.