General Pico Participatory Budget
The Participatory Budget of General Pico is a program that enables direct citizen participation in the establishment of government priorities, proposing, discussing and deciding each year how to execute part of the municipal budget. The projects are formulated by the citizens, who participate in workshops that take place in their neighborhoods. Subsequently, the projects that have been formulated are published on the Municipality's website, and citizens can vote for projects that are of interest to them. The participants entitled to vote are those who are registered in the electoral roll to participate in local elections. Subsequently, the municipal government implements the projects that have received most votes.
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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