{"id":171,"date":"2016-06-09T15:35:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/?page_id=171"},"modified":"2016-09-01T02:03:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T06:03:35","slug":"2-3-budgeting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/2-housing-environment-within-the-agreement\/2-3-budgeting\/","title":{"rendered":"2.3 Budgeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Budgets for implementation are a cross-cutting issue. Budgets for cooperative activities are typically not specified, since the scope of the activities is unknown, but the arrangements under which they are decided should be specified. Budgets for institutions established by trade agreements or environmental cooperation agreements (ECAs) should ideally be spelled out on a predictable basis. Of course, it is difficult to budget for activities that are as yet not certain. But without a predictable budget allocation or process, it is difficult to fulfil cooperative and capacity-building mandates, which typically require multi-year commitments. Similarly, it is difficult to maintain institutional continuity without at least the reasonable expectation of continued funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budgets for implementation are a cross-cutting issue. Budgets for cooperative activities are typically not specified, since the scope of the activities is unknown, but the arrangements under which they are decided should be specified. Budgets for institutions established by trade agreements or environmental cooperation agreements (ECAs) should ideally be spelled out on a predictable basis.<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/2-housing-environment-within-the-agreement\/2-3-budgeting\/\" title=\"Read2.3 Budgeting\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":117,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"0"},"class_list":["post-171","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}