Municipal Budget Consultation
The Municipal Budget Consultations are a mandatory stage of the local budget cycle, regulated by Law No. 376 of 2013, particularly in the Second Section, Art. 25 onwards. The legislation provides that all municipalities, before debating and approving the budgets for the following year in the Municipal Council, must submit the first draft for consultation with the citizens. These consultations take the form of public hearings where every citizen must be able to voice their requestsnand demands for the budget. Citizens' considerations are gathered in a consultation protocol that must then be systematized and approved by a Special Commission, which later must submit its amendment proposals for debate in the Council along with the considerations on which those amendments are based. The Budget is then discussed and either approved or rejected in the plenary session of the Municipal Council.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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