City Hall Participatory Budgets
In Uruguay, there is no national legislation on Participatory Budgeting, but in several localities they have been established in different forms, such as in the City Halls of Paysandú, Rivera, Florida, Cerro Largo, Maldonado and Salto. The process in all cases starts with the citizens who present proposals, these are approved and then promoted in campaigns by their promoters, to finally be submitted to a vote of the population. Depending on each case, there may also be room for discussion of the projects and monitoring commissions. In some cases these spaces are linked with other participation spaces, such as the Neighborhood Councils. It's important to note that, in 2010, the municipal level was created in Uruguayan administration through the Decentralization and Participation Law, which also led to certain local authorities taking initiatives with participatory budgeting at the local level.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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