The First Global Assembly for Budget Transparency, Accountability and Participation took place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on November 18-19th. This event brought together nearly 100 civil society groups from 56 countries and 12 international organizations working on public finance and budget accountability issues to launch a global effort to make public budgets transparent, participatory, and accountable.

TAP is pleased to announce the opening of our latest request for proposals.  In the newest phase of our Grants Program, TAP will sponsor up to ten (10) organizations to design and implement a citizen report card (CRC) project and related advocacy that focuses on improving how money is being spent and how services are being delivered in the health, water, and education sectors at the national, sub-national, and/or local level in their countries.   Application to the Grants Program is open to any non-government organization from target countries in sub-Saharan African (Bur

TAP will be hosting the first launch workshop for its newest grant round in Johannesburg, South Africa, from May 2nd to 6th. In Johannesburg, representatives from the five supported organizations will gather to receive technical training on public expenditure tracking and quantitative service delivery surveys, other social accountability tools, and advocacy strategies fromexperts in the field. The will also network with fellow grantees and further develop their project as well as their long term program and organizational goals.

The Governance Program at R4D will lead the technical sessions of the Annual Workshop for think tank partners of the Strengthening Institutions to Improve Public Expenditure Accountability (“Strengthening Institutions”) project in Bangkok, Thailand, on February 28 through March 2, 2011.