Enhancing Transparency Initiatives and Ensuring Public Participation in Municipal Budgets (ETPMB) Project

Since the inception of the local self-government system in Azerbaijan, one of the biggest goals is to have a well functioning governance system in place at the local level. The idea of local self-governance has been warmly accepted by most of the democratic states and Azerbaijan also opened a way for the introduction of local self-governance concept into the administration. Both top-down and bottom-up efforts are prerequisites for having democracy functional in the society. To facilitate the pursuit of this goal in the society of Azerbaijan, a well-known policy think-tank Economic Research Centre initiated a municipal project “Enhancing Transparency Initiatives and Ensuring Public Participation in Municipal Budgets” on building a successful practice of civic engagement in municipal policy-making, particularly in the budgetary process, which is apparently of prominent importance to most of the citizenry.

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