It is important to understand how policy choices are made. In any country no matter how rich or poor, there are insufficient resources available to meet all existing needs.
Budgets can be intimidating documents. They are big, full of numbers and often riddled with jargon- technical language.
Too often, budget have few summary tables. There are no handy directions for a casual reader. As a result, most people feel intimidated by the idea of trying to delve into budgets.
They assume that it is highly sophisticated, technical and detached work.
Budget analysis can be simple and straight forward on how policy choices are made. You only need to use tools of arithmetic such as adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. Further, human rights advocates can learn to talk about budgets and priorities they embody in powerful ways.
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Budget analysts should sustain thus effort to unravel and understand the budget.
Human rights advocates must learn to tell a story about the budgets, they must learn to translate dry data of a budget into a compelling case for improved and expanded programs for the poor and other vulnerable people.
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