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Fiscal transparency in Uruguay:
next steps and challenges
Jakarta, 13-15 September 2016
Current webpage will be substituted by a new
Budget Transparency Portal
Expected launching: May 2017
Committed in OG National Plan 2016-2018
Current: Public Policy Observatory
Portal’s objective
• Our Portal should be a significant contribution to
transparency of public expenditure, budget and
evaluation of public policies
• Offering different information outputs to different
audiences
• Adding value by integrating, linking and allowing
users making sense of the information they get
• Facilitating their understanding and engagement
in public debates on policies and public
expenditure
Consultation
During initial design (current) stage
• Analysis of information requests dataset
• Workshop with 11 academics and government policy analysts
• Online surveys to 12 qualified informants (OSC activists,
academics and journalists)
• Interviews to 7 of these informants.
• A synthesis of the Portal project was published and subject to
public online consultation as part of the third Open Government
National Plan. We are still waiting for the results.
In the future:
Ongoing, iterative interaction for co-creating specific information
outputs tailored for specific audiences.
“Open ears” through different channels
Content, reach, sources of information
Information to be included in our Portal
Revenues and expenditures of public
sector (not only national budget)
National budget: Planning (objectives and
goals), financial (assignment and
expenditures) and performance
information (KPI’s and evaluation
reports)
National budget: financial information
Financial and performance information of
State Owned Companies; More
Autonomous Public Bodies and Sub
National Governments.
Current situation
Not consolidated.
Published in formats which can be understood only by
experts.
Usually not open formats
Planning and performance information are only partially
published and not clearly enough linked to financial
information.
We still can publish more, or more frequently. And it can
be shown through different outputs which could be
understood by different audiences. (E.g. Lay citizens do
not analyze open data)
Most of this data is only partially published as tables. So it
remains not usable by many audiences. Some of it
remains unpublished.
National Evaluation Registry
Most public policy / projects evaluation reports remain
dispersed and/or unpublished.
Sustainable Development Goals
These goals and its KPI are just being set. For Uruguay, this
information will be displayed in our Portal.
Content, reach, sources of information
Opportunities, challenges and solutions
• We will make our best efforts to make integration and upgrading
automatic, using available or new information systems when
needed.
• We learnt through experience that such a Portal cannot rely just
on “handmade” collection to keep its information upgraded.
Opportunity:
• Advances in open government data in Uruguay
• Government interoperability platform which allows government
offices to exchange data in a fast and secure manner.
Main challenge: getting automated access to some of the datasets
we intend to publish.
IT for interactive platforms, functionality
and programming
Only Part-time IT resources.
Help from E-Gvt agency for setting/checking compliance with
usability and accessibility standards
Outsourced development, In-house maintenance.
Specific budget: only for the initial web design and configuration of
our platform.
Interoperability with source information systems is one of our main
challenges.
Commucation and promotion strategies
We don´t have budget for mass media. We will rely
mostly on social media and our professional networks
SUGESTIONS ARE WELCOME!!!!
Measuring usage / success and adjustments
- Google analytics or similar
- APDEX (just suggested by Rafael)
- Occasional media scouting
- Consultation to key users
SUGESTIONS ARE WELCOME!!!!
Gracias.
Oficina de Planeamiento y Presupuesto
Plaza Independencia 710 / Montevideo, Uruguay