Tarqui Participatory Budgeting: Democracy and Rural Development
The Participatory Budget of Tarqui is an initiative launched in 2001 and developed by the Local Council of Tarqui together with the Municipality of Cuenca in order to generate sustainable human development processes. The objective is to improve the conditions and the quality of life of the population through an equitable distribution of decision-making power and with the participation of the entire population in public investment decisions that facilitate their relationship with the Local Council. This is done through the deliberation, decision, management, execution and control of the public budget and the public policies of the community. This initiative generated a network of 26 communities with a total population of 8921 inhabitants. These communities have carried out more than 120 community development projects on various strategic issues, such as: drinking water, conservation of natural resources, community equipment, sanitation systems, health and education prevention programs, among others.
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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