International Budget Partnership

What International Budget Partnership does

International Budget Partnership (IBP) is a Washington, D.C.-based global nonprofit organization that partners with civil society organizations, budget analysts, and community advocates across 120 countries to advance public budget transparency, oversight, and citizen participation. Its flagship product is the Open Budget Survey (OBS) — described as the world's only comparative, independent, and regular assessment of national budget transparency — conducted over 10 rounds and 20 years, covering up to 125 countries. The OBS franchise anchors a portfolio of specialized initiatives including the Budget Credibility Initiative, Debt Accountability Initiative (piloted in Senegal, Benin, and Cameroon), Tax Equity Initiative, Climate Budgeting supplementary questions across 82 countries, and the Collaborating for Open and Accountable Budgeting (COAB) program funded by the European Commission across 15 countries. IBP also distributes free publications, training resources, and a recently launched AI-powered chatbot accompanying its Public Procurement Guide.

The organization's business model is grant-funded and non-commercial: all products, datasets, and publications are provided at no cost under an open-access distribution model. Revenue derives from institutional donors (most prominently the European Commission for COAB and PACT BUDGÉTAIRE), supplemented by a diversified donor stack supporting country-level programs and the Francophone Africa Network (which disbursed $270K in sub-grants). Distribution is self-serve via the website, complemented by direct field partnerships with civil society organizations, government counterparts, and regional institutions (WAEMU, African Development Bank, West African Tax Administration Forum). The 2026 launch of IBP Afrique Francophone in Dakar — converting the prior IBP Senegal country office into a regional hub for 11 Francophone African countries — signals a strategic pivot from country-level to region-level operations in West and Central Africa.

Name

International Budget Partnership

Legal name

International Budget Partnership

Website

https://internationalbudget.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

International Budget Partnership is a global nonprofit that partners with civil society across 120 countries to advance public budget transparency, oversight, and citizen participation through the Open Budget Survey and capacity-building programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Financial Management Research and Advocacy

NAICS

International Affairs (928120), Public Finance Activities (92113)

SIC

International Affairs (9721)

akta.pro primary industry

International Grantmaking & Development Foundations (BPAGAKAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Budgeting & Fiscal Planning (BPAIAEAA), Economic Growth, Trade & Private Sector Development Programs (BPADABAF)

Keywords

• Budget transparency research
• Public finance advocacy
• Fiscal accountability
• Civil society capacity building
• Government budget oversight

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Institutional Grants and Donations: IBP operates primarily through institutional funding from donors including the European Commission (COAB initiative), and partnership funding for regional programs. The organization does not charge for its core products (Open Budget Survey, publications, resources).
2. EU-Funded Programming: European Commission funding for the Collaborating for Open and Accountable Budgeting (COAB) initiative across 15 countries. This represents a major funding stream for capacity building and advocacy programs.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

International Budget Partnership operates as a global research and advocacy organization producing the Open Budget Survey, the world's only comparative, independent, and regular assessment of participation, oversight, and transparency in national budgets. It supports a portfolio of initiatives on budget credibility, debt accountability, tax equity, climate budgeting, and civil society capacity building through its global network of partners in 120 countries and regional offices.

Product overview

International Budget Partnership operates as a global advocacy and research organization rather than a software company. Its core product is the Open Budget Survey (OBS), the world's only comparative assessment of budget transparency, oversight, and public participation covering 125 countries. The organization supports a portfolio of interconnected programs and initiatives including the Budget Credibility Initiative, Debt Accountability Initiative, Tax Equity Initiative, and Collaborating for Open and Accountable Budgeting (COAB). These programs work through civil society partnerships, network building across Francophone Africa and other regions, and capacity building to advance public budget systems that work for people. IBP also provides research publications, training resources, and climate budgeting tools as part of its broader portfolio of public financial management resources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Open Budget Survey (OBS): The world's only comparative, independent and regular assessment of participation, oversight, and transparency in national budgets
• Francophone Africa Network
• Collaborating for Open and Accountable Budgeting (COAB)
• PACT BUDGÉTAIRE
• Tax Equity Initiative
• Debt Accountability Initiative
• Budget Credibility Initiative

Products and services

• Open Budget Survey (OBS) The world's only comparative, independent, and regular assessment of participation, oversight, and transparency in national budgets, covering 125 countries across 10 rounds of assessments spanning 20 years; targeted at governments, civil society, journalists, and researchers seeking cross-country budget data.
• Budget Credibility Initiative

Quantifiable outcome

• 120 countries assessed on transparency, oversight and public participation in public spending
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and important.

• Dakar Regional Office (Francophone Africa)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 July 2026IBP officially launched its Francophone Africa regional office in Dakar, Senegal on July 22, 2026. The office supports budget transparency, citizen participation, and public accountability reforms across 11 francophone African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Chad, and Togo.
• West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWAEMU is a key regional institution with normative power to drive public financial management reform. IBP brokers relationships between excluded communities, government counterparts, and WAEMU to advance reforms that connect country-level learning with regional norms and standards.
• African Development BankcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAfrican Development Bank is a major regional institution that IBP engages with to advance public financial management reforms across Francophone Africa, connecting country-level learning with regional development finance standards.
• West African Tax Administration ForumimportantStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional forum that IBP engages with to advance tax equity initiatives and coordinate on tax policy reforms across Francophone West Africa, including co-organizing the First West Africa Tax Summit.
• Fédération Sénégalaise des Associations de Personnes Handicapées (FSAPH)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFSAPH represents 800,000 people with disabilities in Senegal. IBP partnered with FSAPH to ensure people with disabilities were included in COVID-19 government relief programs and budgets, helping 100,000 people with disabilities access emergency food and utility assistance.
• UrbaSENcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUrbaSEN is a partner organization bringing together professionals working in urban management in informal settlements. IBP works with UrbaSEN on flood resilience in Dakar's informal settlements using social audits and drone footage to generate community data insights.
• Fédération Sénégalaise des Habitants (FSH)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFSH is the Senegalese Federation of Inhabitants, working to improve living conditions in informal settlements. IBP partners with FSH on community-led advocacy, with 25,000 informal settlement residents mobilized through the 'Mbolo moy doole' collective.
• SENDGHANAimportantStrategic or Co-development PartnerSENDGHANA partnered with IBP to launch Ghana's Open Budget Survey 2025 findings in Accra. Together they called for timely publication of budget documents, broader citizen participation, and establishment of an Independent Fiscal Institution.
• Social Justice (Côte d'Ivoire)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIBP and partner Social Justice launched PACT BUDGÉTAIRE in Côte d'Ivoire in 2025, an EU-supported program to strengthen budget transparency by improving government disclosure practices and building civil society capacity.
• National Sanitation Office (Senegal)importantStrategic or Co-development PartnerSenegal's National Sanitation Office entered into official partnership with IBP and the 'Mbolo moy doole' collective to advance WASH and flood prevention priorities in informal settlements.
• COST BUDGET (Coalition des Organisations de la Société civile qui Travaillent sur le Budget)importantStrategic or Co-development PartnerCôte d'Ivoire's first civil society coalition focused on budget accountability, created with IBP support in 2022. Part of the Francophone Africa Network.

Scale indicators15 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Emerging players

• International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD): Research center focused on tax policy and governance in developing countries. Comparable to IBP through its focus on tax equity and capacity building in low- and middle-income countries, though narrower in thematic scope.
• Publish What You Fund: NGO producing the Aid Transparency Index and advocating for open aid data. Comparable to IBP through its focus on transparency benchmarking and donor accountability, though narrower in thematic scope to aid rather than domestic budgets.

Direct peers

• Transparency International: Global anti-corruption NGO producing the Corruption Perceptions Index and working through national chapters in 100+ countries. Comparable to IBP in operating a global civil society network to advance public integrity and government accountability.
• Global Integrity: Independent nonprofit producing evidence-based assessments of government accountability and anti-corruption mechanisms. Closely comparable to IBP through its production of cross-country accountability indices and support for in-country reformers.
• Tax Justice Network: Independent international network focused on tax justice, transparency, and combating tax evasion. Comparable to IBP through overlapping work on tax equity and the Financial Secrecy Index and shared civil society network model.
• CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation working to strengthen civil society and citizen action globally. Comparable to IBP through its global civil society network model and is even named in IBP team bios as a prior employer.
• Open Government Partnership: Multi-stakeholder initiative promoting government transparency, accountability, and citizen participation across 70+ countries. Directly comparable to IBP through its co-creation of transparency standards and country-level reform action plans, overlapping heavily with IBP's mandate.
• Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI): NGO focused on transparent and accountable management of oil, gas, and mineral resources. Comparable to IBP through its Resource Governance Index and work building civil society capacity for fiscal accountability in resource-rich countries.

Broad incumbents

• International Monetary Fund (IMF): Multilateral institution with extensive fiscal transparency work, including the Fiscal Transparency Code and Article IV consultations. Comparable as a broader incumbent producing cross-country fiscal data that overlaps with IBP's mandate, though with a much wider remit and government mandate.
• World Bank: Multilateral development institution producing public financial management assessments and supporting budget reform programs globally. Comparable as a large incumbent whose PEFA framework and country-level work partially overlap with IBP's mandate.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/watch?v=JTJEkTXQA6I
• Xx.com/openbudgets
• Facebookfacebook.com/InternationalBudgetPartnership
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/international-budget-partnership

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Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

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