Description:
This toolkit for analyzing public
expenditures in agriculture contributes to a broader effort
to enhance the focus, quality, and appropriate scaling of
public spending in the sector. More specifically, the
toolkit has two goals: to provide checklists for
practitioners conducting various kinds of agriculture public
expenditure analyses, and to provide selected examples on
aspects of the checklist to help guide analysis. The toolkit
presents a diversity of approaches and describes experiences
both positive and negative in conducting agricultural public
spending analyses in different settings and with different
objectives. It offers checklists of issues and options,
rather than a minimum list of issues to be covered. Needs,
existing work time, and budget constraints will likely drive
the selection of the checklist topics to be covered in any
given analysis of public expenditures. The toolkit is
organized to facilitate this selectivity of topic, while
maintaining a strategic perspective. The supporting examples
draw on numerous analyses of public expenditures in agricultures.