Participatory Budget of San Salvador
The Participatory Budget of San Salvador is a participatory process through which citizens deliberate and decide on the allocation of a part of the municipal budget. The investments are dedicated to local development projects. The Municipal Committee of the Participatory Budget leads the process as the highest instance of control, planning and decision. The objectives of the participatory budget include the better inclusion of socially disadvantaged, increasing the effectiveness, efficiency and transparency of municipal management, as well as the empowerment and expansion of the network of civil organizations to increase responsiveness to social demands and increase the awareness amongst citizens of shared responsibility in public affairs.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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