Starts technical assistance to the Honduran Ministry of Finance in terms of opening government data

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), began technical support in the field regarding the opening of government data to the Government’s Finance Secretariat of the Republic of Honduras.

Technical assistance for the availability of transactional data on the execution of fiscal spending of the different State agencies is carried out at the request of the General Director of the Budget of the Honduran Ministry of Finance, Ricardo Madrid.

The accompaniment, which is part of the efforts that ECLAC has been making for more than a decade to promote Open Government policies in the region, seeks to allow citizens, public institutions, civil society and all stakeholders interested in of public resources, can easily know where and how public sector resources are spent. Through the Open Budget, we want to increase transparency and control over how and where the national budget is spent.

This first stage of technical assistance seeks to make a diagnosis of the regulatory, institutional, technical capacity, process and data identification aspects that emanate from the Ministry of Finance and other public services of the Republic of Honduras for its subsequent preparation. and publication in open formats.

The second stage will focus on the formation of teams and the preparation of internal capacities and, finally, efforts will be concentrated on achieving the publication of some data bodies, with friendly visualizations accompanied by a dissemination campaign.

A transparent State provides information on what it is doing, makes its sources and databases available, and publishes all its work, thereby giving content to its responsibilities towards society. This encourages and promotes accountability to citizens, permanent surveillance by society and greater co-responsibility.

The central idea of ​​the opening of government data is that public institutions release the information they produce and/or collect in easily reusable formats, with the aim that society be in charge of generating useful applications, in order to get a better use of the data that the State makes available to them. Under these principles, opening national budgets is a gesture of fiscal transparency that should be promoted and strengthened