Transparent budgets enable citizens to obtain complete, accurate, timely and understandable information about the budget. Hence, citizens can get informed and influence the more efficient collection of public funds and supply of public goods and services, increase accountability of local authorities and reduce opportunities for corruption. Maps show the local budget transparency in the period from November 2016 to March 2017 measured by the number of following key budget documents published on the official websites of the counties, cities, and municipalities:
- 2014 year-end report
- 2015 mid-year report
- 2016 budget proposal
- 2016 enacted budget
- 2016 citizens budget.
Our analysis involved only documents available in the observed research periods on the local government units’ websites, i.e. on the days when the websites were examined. Subsequently published documents were not considered. This methodology results in a local budget transparency index ranging from zero to five.
Detailed results and methodology of the research are presented in the Newsletter Budget transparency in Croatian counties, cities and municipalities (November 2015 - March 2016).
This work has been supported in part by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project (IP-2014-09-3008). Given the extensiveness of the research, there is some possibility of error. All the links were active at the time of the research.
Contact: transparency@ijf.hr.