Strategies
To analyze Rajasthan State Budgets and to pull out the findings, highlighting the relevant aspects from the perspective of the poor and marginalized;
To organize budget orientation meetings for civil society organizations, people’s organizations and others in different regions of Rajasthan;
To organize issue-based budget orientation meetings for the capacity building of the concerned issue-related organizations, and others as well;
To organize budget orientation meetings for the state legislators and help them by sending questions relating to the anomalies in funding and expenditures, and other related matters;
To carry out experimental events with members of selected Gram Panchayats, and to work with elected representatives of the Panchayats, enabling them to have a better understanding about the budget making processes at the local level, the need-based demands of the local bodies and the overall financial decentralization process;
To organize budget orientation meetings for the PRI members in different parts of Rajasthan;
To conduct micro-studies on different issues and schemes, incorporating field-level data collection and analysis;
To disseminate our analyzed findings, research results etc. through the publications of booklets, newsletters etc.;
To organize press conferences and to share the findings of our analysis with the media;
To encourage different organizations and people, including MLAs, to come to us for budget information, and thereafter satisfy their queries with data and information;
To attend and participate in different meetings and share our views with others, to strengthen network and collective action;
To visit other Budget Centers in the country in order to learn from their experiences.