Municipal Participatory Budgeting
The Municipal Participatory Budgeting are a process of citizen participation in the definition, deliberation, decision and control of the municipal budget, which has following goals: a) To broaden participatory democracy and the distribution of power; b) To improve the local government/citizenry or state/civil society relations; and (c) To promote social inclusion through the redistribution of public resources, ensuring greater allocation to traditionally excluded sectors. This is an open process, which can involve anyone interested in influencing and deciding on the distribution of the municipal budget. In Ecuador, delegates and representatives of civil society organizations from the territory generally participate. The participatory budget has several successive stages, during which different selection methodologies are applied, including a stage of information on the participatory budgeting process, the carrying out of technical studies, the approval of the decisions, the execution of the budget and evaluation at the end of the process. As of 2009, there were 34 municipalities that had participatory budgets within Ecuador.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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