A City Council with Values (Participatory Budget of Altamira)
A City Council with Values is the participatory budget of the municipality of Altamira, which has been taking place since 2006. As regulated by the Constitution and the corresponding laws, the participatory budget at the municipal level is a mandatory tool to ensure satisfactory citizen participation. Supported by the Solidarity Foundation, a civil society organization and the Canadian International Development Agency, Law 176-07, introducing participatory budgets at the municipal level, was first developed in Altamira and served as a model for the subsequent implementation of participatory budgets in the rest of the country. In the municipality of Altamira a total of 31 communities participated in the deliberation process each year, communicating their priorities and desires as to how the municipal budget of the following year should be spent. Supported by Fundacion Solidaridad, a civil society organisation and the Canadian development service - the implementation of the law 176-07 introducing participatory budgeting at municipal level, was primarily developed in Altamira and served as a role-model for further implementation all over the country.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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