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Strengthening the Global Financing Framework through Accountable Public Financial Management

December 06, 2024
10:00 am – 11:30 am EST

Room CR-9, Conference Building,
United Nations Headquarters,
405 E 45^th St, New York City
United States

Hybrid Event

Raising funds for development is only part of the battle – ensuring these funds are spent transparently and with meaningful public participation is critical to ensuring development effectiveness and support for development finance. This side event, organized by the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and Open Contracting Partnership (OCP), will feature a discussion with two civil society organizations from the Global South on how open data on budgets and public procurement can create opportunities for public participation in agenda setting and monitoring public spending. When development aid and lending are channeled through credible and accountable budget and procurement processes, it allows clear tracking of expenditures—especially in public procurement, often a government’s highest corruption risk. Advancing reforms for more open budgets and open contracting will ensure the effectiveness of development aid and rebuild public trust.

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Speakers

Aranzazu Guillan Montero

Senior Governance and Public Administration Officer, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Ms. Aránzazu Guillán Montero is a Senior Governance and Public Administration Officer at the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government in the United Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs (DPIDG /UN DESA).

Before joining DESA, she was a Senior Program Advisor at U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (Norway) with a focus on mainstreaming anti-corruption into sector programs and strengthening people’s engagement in anti-corruption. Previously, she worked for the World Bank, both in operational work and capacity development, on public sector management reform, transparency, access to information and accountability in Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia and South-East Europe. Aránzazu holds a PhD in Government and a Master in Public Policy from Georgetown University (USA).

Gabriel Okeowo

Country Director for Nigeria, BudgIT Foundation

Gabriel Okeowo is the Country Director at BudgIT – a civic organization that applies technology to intersect citizen engagement with institutional improvement to facilitate societal change.

Gabriel is a social development professional with over 15 years of progressive experience in the NGO sector. Gabriel’s background is in behavioral science, and he has an advanced degree in project development and implementation. He also possesses skills and certification in data processing and management information systems (DPMIS).

Gabriel’s experience cuts across social integration, human development, community development, health promotion, organizational development, and the promotion of public sector transparency and accountability. Gabriel has led several development projects with international organizations, nationally and across five West African countries, with funding support from the Global Fund, the EU, the Dutch Government, and other international philanthropic foundations.

At BudgIT, Gabriel is responsible for the overall organizational strategy and for managing various departments/project teams in the organization, interfacing with donors, raising funds for projects, reviewing organizational plans and budgets, and overseeing brand visibility strategy.

Gilbert Sendugwa

Executive Director, Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC)

Gilbert Sendugwa is the Executive Director Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC) – the largest CSO network and resource centre that promotes citizens’ right to information, transparency and accountability, climate justice and inclusion of women and other marginalized groups. Gilbert has actively promoted democratic governance through public access to information in Africa. He holds a master’s degree in Management Studies, Postgraduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management and a BA in Social Work and Social Administration.

Maleine Niang

Director, Francophone Africa, International Budget Partnership

Maleine joined IBP in February 2019 to become the first Country Manager for Senegal. He has a broad background in public policy, with experience ranging from political affairs to economic development to academia where he has contributed to several research projects linked to democratic governance, public financial management and fiscal policy. Maleine has worked as a monitoring and evaluation specialist on a USAID program but also in projects targeting legislative assistance, reform processes (freedom of information act), transparency and accountability (budgets and extractive industries) at the national (Senegal) and regional levels (West Africa). He has engaged with Senegal’s Ministry of Finance on improving the country’s performance relative to the Open Budget Index. Immediately prior to joining IBP, Maleine managed the public finance program of the Senegalese NGO known as ONG-3D. He is also a PHD candidate working on tax expenditures.

Moderators

Kristen Robinson

Head of Advocacy, Open Contracting Partnership

Kristen leads Open Contracting Partnership’s advocacy, building on her 15 years’ experience in policy advocacy, strategic communications and campaigning. She is passionate about all things open government, open tech and open data, having previously served as Communications and Campaigns Director at the Web Foundation and in public communications before that.

At the Web Foundation, she drove multi-stakeholder coalition building, policy advocacy campaigns and media relations work with a focus on normative and narrative change. She managed external communications for web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee in his capacity as founding executive director.

She has consulted and advised a number of NGOs, multilateral organizations, governments and businesses on their public reputation and external affairs, including during high stakes crises in the areas of peace and security, financial crime and corruption. Her consultancy clients have included: Kofi Annan Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Africa Progress Panel, Google, Orange, The Elders, Omidyar Network, Millicom, UN Women, UN Population Fund and a number of governments in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia.

Kristen began her career with roles for the US and German governments in investment and trade promotion, with stints in Mexico City and Shanghai. She graduated from the London School of Economics with an MSc in International Political Economy with merit, and speaks Spanish, French and German proficiently

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