Ulusal Bütçe Sürecine Vatandaş Katılımı Ve Araçlarının Değerlendirilmesi

Öz

Bugüne kadar kamu bütçe sürecine vatandaş katılımına ilişkin deneyimlerin çoğunun yerel yönetimler düzeyinde gerçekleştiği görülmektedir. Ancak günümüzde Dünya Bankası ve IMF gibi uluslararası kuruluşlar tarafından ulusal bütçe sürecinde katılımcı bir yaklaşım sergilenmesi gerekliliğine ilişkin vurgu artmaktadır. Ulusal bütçe sürecine vatandaş katılımının sağlanabilmesi için yasama organlarının, yürütme organlarının ve yüksek denetim kurumlarının bütçe sürecinin farklı aşamalarına ilişkin çeşitli mekanizmalar geliştirmeye başladığı görülmektedir. Ulusal bütçe sürecine vatandaş katılım düzeyini araştırmak için “Uluslararası Bütçe Ortaklığı (IBP)” tarafından “Açık Bütçe Anketi (OBS)” araştırması yapılmaktadır. Bu araştırma ulusal bütçe sürecine vatandaş katılımını küresel düzeyde ölçen tek araştırmadır. OBS 2021 sonuçları, araştırmaya dahil edilen ülkelerin büyük çoğunluğunun bütçe sürecine vatandaş katılımı konusunda iyi durumda olmadığını göstermektedir. Bu çalışma ile ulusal bütçe sürecine vatandaş katılımını sağlayan araçların neler olabileceğinin araştırılması amaçlanmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Ulusal Bütçe Süreci
• Katılımcı Bütçeleme
• Ulusal Bütçe Sürecine Vatandaş Katılımı

Evaluation of Citizen Participation and Tools in the National Budget Process

Abstract

According to recent observations, most of the occurrences related to citizen participation in the public budget process have realized at the level of local governments. However, there is an increasing emphasis on the necessity of adopting a participatory approach by international organizations such as the World Bank and the IMF. It has been observed that legislative and executive bodies and supreme audit institutions have started to develop various mechanisms regarding various stages of the budget process in order to ensure citizen participation in the process of creating the national budget. As a data collection instrument, the "Open Budget Survey (OBS)" have been developed by the "International Budget Partnership (IBP)" is utilized to investigate the level of participation of citizens in the national budget process. This research is a unique study that measures citizen participation in the national budget process at a global level. The OBS 2021 results indicate that the majority of the countries included in the survey do not have a good level of citizen participation in the budget process. In this study, it is aimed to investigate possible mechanisms that ensure citizen participation in the national budget process.

Keywords

• National Budget Process
• Participatory Budgeting
• Citizen Participation in National Budget Process

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