Participatory Budgets
The Participatory Budget in Venezuela was introduced in some municipalities in the 1990s as part of the decentralization process of the public administration. However, the institutional design was defined in legislation only during in the following decade. The Central Bill of Municipal Public Power (2005) formalized the participatory budget as an mandatory requirement for budgetary management in Municipal Councils. Its operation is governed by the principles of deliberation and representation of community organizations through the intermediation of participatory bodies: the Local Planning Councils (CLPP) and the neighborhood assemblies. The ultimate objective of the Participatory Budget is for the population to participate in defining the investment priorities of the municipality's budget.
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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