Participatory Budgeting
The participatory budget is a management tool that is used, especially at the municipal level, with the objective of identifying priorities and determining the amounts and destinations of a percentage of the budgetary items of public expenditure. This innovation has not been institutionalized in Guatemala, although a legal framework of decentralization and citizen participation exists that allows these experiences to be carried out at the local level. Such experiences have been implemented in the municipalities of Amatitlán, San Martín Sacatepéquez, and Uspantán Quiché. Unlike other countries in the region, this participatory innovation has not been implemented through any digital medium.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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