1.5 Who finances the PRS?
The national budget of a country allocates most of the financial means needed to implement the PRS. However, an increasing number of international donors also support the PRS concept with their own direct budgets, adding these to the governmental budget rather than purely providing money for projects and programmes as in the past. The discussion on financial issues and the allocation of money within the national budget also requires a participatory approach with the contribution of the civil society, even though for non-economists this subject is very complex and challenging. In recent years there have been many efforts to make this process more transparent to the public, e.g. by conducting budgetary audits and increasing the number of discussions. However, more improvement still needs to be made in this regard.
