Participatory Budgeting of Villa El Salvador
The participatory budget of Villa El Salvador, one of the districts of Lima, was an experience of citizen participation that preceded the legislative framework of Participatory Budgeting Law, which regulated this type of democratic innovation throughout the country in the 2003. The first experience of collaborative management of the municipal budget was promoted by the local government together with several non-governmental organizations in 1999, within the framework of the Integral Development Plan. The process was organized by thematic round tables, and featured itinerant consultations, an information campaign, and several territorial and thematic workshops aimed at managing 35% of the budget. The second participatory budget was institutionalized at the local level one year later, in 2001, and from 2003, the PP began to be carried out within the framework of national legislation.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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