Participatory Budgets
The Participatory Budgets are a series of experiments and practices that have diverse forms, sizes and characteristics depending on the region. However, they all possess a central characteristic: they embody a participative methodology that allows the municipalities to join neighbors together through a process of information, deliberation, decision and oversight of a significant part of the municipal budget and other general municipal resources. In the absence of a specific regulation for these types of initiatives, the undersecretary of Regional and Administrative Development promotes the implementation of participatory budgets amongst the interested municipalities; there is no other type of formal support nor legal financial incentive from the government for mayors or civil society to initiate such participatory processes.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
Means
|
Ends
|
