The Foundation helps citizens engage with governments and hold them to account for the affect of their public finance decisions on them, especially the poor. It assists citizens in understanding how governments are managing public money, and to sift reality from rhetoric. The Foundation’s budget work includes assessment of mainstream provincial (sub-national) budgets, off-budget funds for post-disaster rehabilitation, citizen monitoring of government performance and the timely production and availability of federal budget documents. It advocates new spaces for citizen engagement in public budgets and more ways to make budget information available and accessible to citizens.