Participatory Budget
The Participatory Budget is a management tool through which districts, localities and regions participate in the identification of priorities and the determination of amounts and destinations of a percentage of the budgets for public expenditure in each of the said levels. To this end, the Coordination Councils and district and local authorities are called to participate, through representatives of civil and social organizations, to present and select projects, or as neighbors, to participate in the votes that determine the priority of the projects to be executed. In turn, the projects feed and serve as input for the Concerted Development Plans. In Peru, the Participatory Budget is obligatory at all levels according to the Framework Law No. 28056 of 2003, which is a pioneer in the national legislation of this mechanism. It is also a case widely debated in academic studies of democracy and decentralization, that highlight its success in reaching broad bases of civil society participation, with approximately 150,000 citizens involved per year.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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