Participatory Budget for Children and Adolescents (OPCA)
The Participatory Budget for Children and Adolescents (OPCA) was an exercise implemented by the Belo Horizonte City Council to promote a culture of participation among students. Through this initiative, children and adolescents had the opportunity to deliberate and collectively define actions and proposals to be implemented in their schools. Once the proposals were defined, they were submitted to a vote among the students. This exercise had two editions (2014 and 2015), in which more than 40 schools and more than 20 thousand students participated.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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